Desired Lua Features

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

Dibyendu recently started a discussion about wether or not Lua has reached
perfection. Of course, this will be a subject highly dependant on the need
and opinions of each user of Lua.

On that same discussion topic the desire for a switch/case like construct
in Lua came up... so I thought I would start a new discussion thread to
see what features people would like to see added to vanilla Lua.

So, if you could add any one feature to Lua right now, what would that
feature be and why would you want to see it added? Please note that this
discussion is in no way meant to be interpreted as pressuring Team Lua to
add any features to Lua, I am genuinely curious what features people want
to see added to Lua and why.

My interest in this subject isn't just academic, however, I may take some
of these ideas on board to add to my hard fork of Lua. If so, I would also
create patches for vanilla Lua as well! :)

~Paige