lua_console.lua

-- First check to see if it can be evaluated as an expression,
-- then fallback to executing it raw
local func, error = loadstring("return (" .. param .. ")")
if not func then
    func, error = loadstring(param)
    if not func then
        return false, "E " .. error
    end
end

local good, errOrResult = pcall(func)
if not good then
    return false, "E " .. errOrResult
end

return true, "= " .. dump(errOrResult)

-- note: this function returns a tuple - (successBoolean,messageToSendToUser)