beefed up lua scripting support, the message is now presented as a table/struct/object and lua now has access to a sender object which it can use to send messages downstream.

tenquestionmarks.toml

@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ parents = ["stdin", "discord", "irc"]
 [lua]
 parents = ["stdin", "discord"]
 code = """
-function on_message (message, reply)
-    reply("Lua says: " .. message)
+function on_message (message)
+    message:reply("Lua says: " .. message:content())
 end
 """
 foo = "bar"
@@ -89,8 +89,24 @@ type = "lua"
 parents = ["stdin", "discord"]
 filters = [{ username = "David" }]
 code = """
-function on_message (message, reply)
-    reply("Lua2 says: " .. message)
+function on_message (message)
+    message:reply("Lua2 says: " .. message:content())
+end
+"""
+
+[lua3]
+type = "lua"
+children = ["lua", "irc"]
+code = """
+local clock = os.clock
+function sleep(n)  -- seconds
+    local t0 = clock()
+    while clock() - t0 <= n do end
+end
+
+while true do
+    sender:send({type = "message", channel = "#eightbar", message = "Hello world!"})
+    sleep(10)
 end
 """