lethediver wrote:"this is certainly doable in lua, but I'm not going to provide any code" is annoying. Lua's turing completeness or lack thereof has little relevance to that.
More annoying than just not saying anything at all? Saying "it's doable in lua but I'm not going to provide any code" says to me:
* There's a scripting language in Crawl, it's Lua
* Crawl (probably) provides the necessary hooks into the game's state to get this task done
I think that even if a poster doesn't want to actually write the code, it's still pretty okay to say "it's at least possible to do what you want."
I am not a very good player. My mouth is a foul pit of LIES. KNOW THIS.