Needless Abuse of Lua

local function setoptions(f)
    local options = {}
    local currentname = nil
    local env = setmetatable({},
    {
        __index = function(self, method)
            if method == 'set' then
                return function(name)
                    if currentname ~= nil then
                        error('need to call "to" first')
                    end
                    currentname = name
                end
            elseif method == 'to' then
                return function(value)
                    if currentname == nil then
                        error('need to call "set" before "to"')
                    end
                    options[currentname] = value
                    currentname = nil
                end
            elseif method == 'enable' then
                return function(name)
                    options[name] = true
                end
            end
        end
    })

    -- close enough to fsetenv
    load(string.dump(f), nil, nil, env)()

    return options
end


local function pptable(t)
    for k,v in pairs(t) do
        print(k, '=', v)
    end
end

-- Cool way
local options = setoptions(function()
    set "port" to "8080"
    set "listen" to "127.0.0.1"
    enable "debug"
end)

pptable(options)


-- Boring way
options = {port='8080', listen='127.0.0.1', debug=true}

pptable(options)

debug	=	true
port	=	8080
listen	=	127.0.0.1

debug	=	true
port	=	8080
listen	=	127.0.0.1