It can come as "golf" language, but those features are used to achieve DSL capabilities See how much mileage Lua gets by `f "a"` be `f("a")` or `f{a = 3}` be `

It can come as "golf" language, but those features are used to achieve DSL capabilities See how much mileage Lua gets by `f "a"` be `f("a")` or `f{a = 3}` be `f({a = 3})`. Haskell achieves the same