Metalua

Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Metalua improves the Lua system by adding meta-programming features via an improved compiler.

This is achieved by adding support for macros, and a set of language extensions without altering the core Lua language syntax.

Basically, Metalua makes Lua work a little bit more closely to the way Lisp works.

Features:

• Macros
• Syntax extensibility
• Dynamic parsers
• Near-universal portability

What is new in this release:

• This release is included in Lua for Windows, so now it couldn't get simpler for MS-Windows users.
• Metalua is written in pure Lua again, thus making it platform-independant. No more mandatory C libraries. Pluto interface might be back, as an option, in a future version, but it's not worth the install trouble involved by DLL dependencies.
• Simpler build process, just run make.sh or make.bat depending on your OS.
• Metalua libraries are now in a separate metalua/* package.

Requirements:

• Lua 5.1 or higher