Interop/Compatability

[Jonathan Coates]

There should be an 'Interop' module. It would be great to run Howl in normal lua. We would need to override the file system and terminal:

• Terminal colours: AnsiColors
• File system LuaFileSystem

Lua file system

The functions can be found here

• lfs.attributes - This can be used for fs.exists, fs.isDir
• lfs.mkdir - Replacement for fs.makeDir
• lft.dir - Replacement for fs.list. Creates an iterator instead of a table though.
• Pure lua IO - fs.open

Terminal

• Cursor, clear - Escape sequences
• Scroll - Nope, cannot be done. Also done via escape sequences
• Colours - use AnsiColors (and Wikipedia)

[Jonathan Coates]

I'm going to use Penlight as much as possible. It is pretty much standard so it should be fine.