Re: implicit conversions in Lua -- what is idiomatic?

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 6 January 2014 16:49, Josh Haberman <jhaberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, my library "upb" is a larger effort of which bindings to Lua are
> just a part. I have schema classes and an optimized decoder written in
> C+DynASM that can be easily bound to any language runtime. And I have
> plans to extend this to other data formats like JSON and even to bind
> it to my dormant Gazelle library (http://www.gazelle-parser.org/) for
> LPeg/Bison-like text parsing.
>
> The vision is:
>
>   {C, C++, Lua, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, etc.} x
>   {Protocol Buffers, JSON, Thrift, Avro, Regexes, Text Parsing} x
>   Highly optimized C+JIT encoders/decoders

Speaking of that, does anyone know about Thrift
implementations/bindings for Lua? I've been asked about that recently
and couldn't find any.

-- Hisham