Luan.load()

http://luan.luanhost.com/manual.html#Luan.load

The current signature is:

Luan.load (text, [source_name [, env [, allow_expression]]])

I want to change it to:

Luan.load (text, [source_name [, allow_expression [, env]]])

This would make it closer to Lua:

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#pdf-load

Okay?

Or another option would be to have 2 different methods:

Luan.load (text, [source_name [, env]])
Luan.load_expression (text, [source_name [, env]])

This may be cleaner and would allow:

local x = '{a=1;b=2;c=3}'
local mytable = Luan.load_expression(x)()

One more option is to get rid of the expression idea and just have:

Luan.load (text, [source_name [, env]])

Then you would do:

local x = '{a=1;b=2;c=3}'
local mytable = Luan.load("return "..x)()

I think this is my preference.

We discussed this. We can do this with Luan.eval().

done.  Here is the implementation of Luan.eval():

function M.eval(s,source_name)
	return M.load( "return "..s, source_name or "eval" )()
end

It looks good, thanks.

closing