lua literals loading draft, and contemplations on the bigger picture Cm language

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diff --git a/cm.lua b/cm.lua
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--- a/cm.lua
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+-- Cm: name inspired by "C meta(language)", but it's not really a metalangauge (whatever this means) of C (or anything else)
+
+local function LateResolveType(name)
+end
+
+local function TypeTagger(tag)
+    return function(props)
+        props._tag = tag
+        return props
+    end
+end
+
+local cm_env_fns = {
+    _namespace = 0, -- TODO
+    _t = LateResolveType,
+    _struct = TypeTagger("struct"),
+    _union = TypeTagger("union"),
+    _alias = TypeTagger("alias"),
+}
+local cm_env_metatable = {__index = cm_env_fns}
+
+---@param fn function
+---@return table
+function LoadCmLua(fn)
+    local env = {}
+    setmetatable(env, cm_env_metatable)
+
+    local old_fenv = getfenv(fn)
+    setfenv(fn, env)
+    pcall(fn)
+    setfenv(fn, old_fenv)
+
+    return env  
+end
+
+function LoadCmDecl(src)
+    -- TODO
+end