2012/10/11 Tim Caswell <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I've wanted something like this as well when I was building luvit. I > had my own io system and my own operating system interaction. I did > notice that some things are needed like pairs and ipairs (how else > will you get the keys of a table?), but other stuff like io.stdout can > be provided by a C library outside of lua itself. I want it for the same reason; I want only the language, and implement everything myself. And of course, keep the parts that are actually needed like pairs :)