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		90s_dev 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on g... Some features like break N and default function args seem to be incompatible with the vanilla lua vm.

Rochus 5 months ago [–]

I think that would be achievable with plain PUC Lua bytecode; it's actually just a jump. The same for default function arguments; the VM doesn't actually care how many arguments the caller pushes on stack, and providing default values is easy to implement for the caller.

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