Then yer shooting yer own foot. Don’t put functions or expressions in your “Lua-SON” any more than you would in your JSON. I guess if you lack confidence in y

Then yer shooting yer own foot. Don’t put functions or expressions in your “Lua-SON” any more than you would in your JSON. I guess if you lack confidence in your coworkers’ ability to resist temptation, you could write a checker using Metalua. That would make a good git submit hook. Doing it “wrong” was one of my fav dev tales. I wrote a custom UI system in OpenGL for an iPhone 1 game (memory budget 32mb). Didn’t have time budget to make a visual editor, so I made up a Py-SON notation that simply loaded as Python. From there I used CTypes to convert the Python data tree into binary files full of arrays of C structs. Loading that in C was just fread(), cast a pointer. The big win came when we realized we had way too much UI to create and not enough artist time to create it. So, another programmer and I sat down and wrote a suite of Python functions that made generating UI components much easier. It required a programmer-artist pair to use. But, otherwise it would have simply been impossible to complete on time.