[DGD] Delay statements in scripting

[John West McKenna]

Noah Gibbs writes:

<a long post about the difficulties of putting delays into scripts without
either inventing another language or putting up with ghastly syntax>

How about taking advantage of LPC's dynamic nature?  Write your script as
ordinary LPC code, with "calls" to a non-existant "delay" function.  This
script never gets executed, or even compiled.  Instead, it gets fed to a
relatively simple preprocessor that breaks it up into separate chunks and
inserts callbacks between them.

The processed code gets compiled and executed.

With a bit more thought/work, it should be possible to deal with loops and
ifs over the breaks (they'd have to be processed into something new too).

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