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181. Re: Lua License (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:07:27 +0900

It's not so outrageous. The GPL starts with a copyright and verbatim copying permission for the license. Most other licenses don't appear to have addressed this issue. All software authors have the r

182. Re: LUA for Batch Scripting (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:06:16 +0900

So why not look for an existing portable C/C++ library (something like gnu's libcommonc++ which is portable across win32, unix, linux) and just concentrate on Lua bindings?

183. Re: LUA for Batch Scripting (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:59:13 +0900

http://www.gnu.org/software/commonc++/ I've never used it... just suggesting. It has portable threading too.

184. Re: Fragmentation (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:05:29 +0900

Check if your malloc system provides such info. This works on many platforms: include <malloc.h> int GetFragmentationSize() { return mallinfo().arena - mallinfo().uordblks; }

185. Re: [CFD] Local functions for Lua 4.1 (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:56:08 +0900

A slippery slope, this proper lexical scoping... It's a sound proposal, but what about backwards compatibility? How much code is out there doing "function x()" at the top scope and expecting to gene

186. Re: The "Is nil present in a table" problem (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:16:20 +0900

I don't think that's an adequate name for the problem. Nil should not be present in tables. Nil is what you assign to a key to remove it from a table. The problem is that Lua uses nil to mean false,

187. Re: unified methods (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:26:36 +0900

Actually unified methods doesn't offer many features at all. It's just taking Lua's internal tag method system an exposing it as tables (this is why Edgar was shocked by your comment about everything

188. Re: unified methods (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:59:23 +0900

When people misunderstand which side I'm on that means my illusion of being unbiased is working ; ) -John

189. Re: false [was: The "Is nil present in a table" problem} (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 01:25:57 +0900

Scheme is a pretty serious as far as languages go and it manages to get by with just a false type. Maybe expecting tables (or the language) to support full marshaling out-of-the-box is too much. Ther

190. Re: pleac (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:06:22 +0900

I think PLEAC would be great, if only the text of "Perl Cookbook" were freely available. (You could get it at your local library but I'm sure there would be a long waiting list.) A chapter is availab

191. Re: Lua tutorial (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:53:26 +0900

Hello, Wouldn't something like this be added to the Documentation section at http://www.lua.org/addons.html? We are trying not to duplicate such directories on the wiki. Whether the addons should to

192. Re: Another nil/false proposal (long) (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:45:10 +0900

(this message is !Lua) I don't know the origins either. In algebra notation we put a bar on top of the symbol. Since the primitive terminals of yesterday (and even today) couldn't do this, perhaps th

193. Re: License (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:01:22 +0900

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html. It sounds like you want "revised BSD" or equivalent. -John

194. Re: [lua] mailing list subject lines (was Lua List Spam) (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:51:58 +0900

In case anyone is not aware, if your email client supports it, you can filter messages from lists such as lua-l by the "To:" field. -John

195. Re: New release of "standard" Lua libraries (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:27:22 +0900

Here are a few possibilities: * use the lua-users sourceforge project. It's a normal project with cvs repository, file release system, etc. You're also welcome to use the web hosting (make a new tree

196. Zoom out (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:21:10 +0900

Even though I'm in Lua's "embedded camp", and am already satisfied with Python for system programming tasks, I can certainly understand the view of people like Philippe. Indeed, if a system programmi

197. Re: Zoom out (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:19:02 +0900

Sure, this is reasonable. The new facility will be an "opt-in" option and not bother people who can't use it or don't want it. However, like a few other people, I think a Pandora's box is being opene

198. Re: Zoom out - LuaX (score: 1)

Author: "John Belmonte" <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:36:10 +0900

I was thinking that it be named separate from Lua. After all, we don't call automobiles "combustion-engine-X's". It would be nice if the new thing could fly on its own merit, not powered by the name

199. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 4.1 (work4) (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:43:13 +0900

Hmmm I had just added that to my warts list, which is almost exhausted. Lua used to be easy to pick on, but now it's getting more challenging. I'm about ready to give up :-).

200. Re: Lua Library Design Workshop (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 23:18:40 +0900

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote: The second is that there is no easy and simple way to avoid using the dot notation for every reference to an "imported" object. Then I presented an idea we have been disc