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This documents the features and adjustments that I would personally like to see integrated with Lua, although this amount of tweaking and additions could likely make a project implementing them to be considered an entirely different language. The affect on performance and feasibility of these suggested features should be carefully considered previous to beginning the implementation of any.

Missing Features

• Class Syntax (inheritance, constructors, destructors, string representation, private methods and variables)
• Operator Overloading (integrated with classes)
• Improved Scope Syntax (new local and global variable types)
• Constant variables
• Promises (asynchronous functions)
• Switch Conditional Syntax (automatically break unless continue)

octacian

local function for_adjacent_nodes(pos, func, ...)
  -- Check that the required parameters (base position and function to execute) are valit
  if type(pos) == "table" and func then
    -- Define adjacent node positions
    local nodes = {
      {x=pos.x + 1, y=pos.y,     z=pos.z},
      {x=pos.x - 1, y=pos.y,     z=pos.z},
      {x=pos.x,     y=pos.y + 1, z=pos.z},
      {x=pos.x,     y=pos.y - 1, z=pos.z},
      {x=pos.x,     y=pos.y,     z=pos.z + 1},

octacian

-- Fetch origin (NOT pull)
git fetch origin 

-- Make sure your on the master branch (not required if you already know you are)
git checkout master

-- Rebase
git rebase origin/master

-- If you are alerted to any conflicts, resolve them and run the following 2 commands (no git commit needed)

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-- [function] run code
function digicompute.run_code(code, env)
  if code:byte(1) == 27 then
    return nil, "Binary code prohibited."
  end
  local f, msg = loadstring(code)
  digicompute.log(dump(f)..", "..dump(msg))
  if not f then return false, msg end
  setfenv(f, env)

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minetest.register_craft({
	type = "cooking",
	output = "default:bronze_ingot",
	recipe = "hammer:hammer",
})

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-- microexpansion/machines.lua

local chest_formspec =
	"size[8,10]" ..
	default.gui_bg ..
	default.gui_bg_img ..
	default.gui_slots ..
	"list[current_name;main;0,0.3;8,4;]" ..
	"list[current_player;main;0,5.5;8,1;]" ..
	"list[current_player;main;0,6.73;8,3;8]" ..

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-- init.lua

local modpath = minetest.get_modpath("io")
minetest.log("action", modpath)

local f = io.open(modpath)
f:close()