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:crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
Hello, I'm just using this issue for a quick poll. Would any of the people that visit here prefer to have a separate website with a community (message board) instead...
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I like the `local *` and `export *` features, and I find myself wishing for some way to **return all variables that aren't explicitly local**. ```moon local x x =...
Is there a way to know the specific `{{first_line, first_column}, {last_line, last_column}}` range of a parse error? This would be useful for code highlighting in my text editor. Currently, I...
```moon ok, err = pcall -> ok, err = pcall foo return err ``` compiles to: ```lua local ok, err = pcall(function() ok, err = pcall(foo) return err end) ```...
It would be cool if there was a CLI flag that compiled Moonscript with an avoidance of tail calls. The use case is debugging, of course. This is probably hard...
Currently, I often see stuff like this: ``` moonscript some_value\xyz! if some_value var = if some_value then some_value.attr else nil ``` Many languages (C#, Dart, many others) now have a...
``` running = {} Node = (tab) -> state, started = {}, false return (object) -> local result unless started result = tab.start object, state if tab.start started...
```moon return foo = -> foo! ``` ..would compile to: ```lua local foo foo = function() return foo() end return foo ``` Apart from returning a function that calls itself,...
```moon if 1 < x < 2 print '`x` is between 1 and 2 (non-inclusive)' ``` ..would compile to: ```lua if x > 1 and x < 2 then print('`x`...
This code.. ```moon foo ?= {} -- If the ?. operator is added: foo?.bar ?= {blue: true} ``` ..would compile to: ```lua local foo if foo == nil then foo...