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221. Re: Loadlib's callfromlib() - anybody using it?!? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:39:41 +0900

On the other hand, closing a large state takes some time, as Lua has to release all memory it was using. It is possible that a Lua program grabs some resource that is not automatically released (for

222. lua and env (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:32:39 +0900

For scripting with stand-alone lua, the idiom is: However things break down when you want to use env for keeping your script independent of lua's path on a given system. It's common to invoke interpr

223. release methodology (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:53:29 +0900

A request to the Lua authors: please give some attention to your release methodology. I don't have any ideal in mind, but suggest you take a look at how things are done with popular projects that hav

224. Re: release methodology (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:33:11 +0900

The point isn't to follow some other group's convention, but to solve a problem. My conclusion that there is a problem may be invalid, which is certainly open to discussion. Exactly because Lua is sm

225. Re: release methodology (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:23:24 +0900

Roberto wrote: We try to use quite similar rules, but with different names. What you call "alfa" we call "work", your beta is our alpha, your "rc" is our beta, and "gold" is our "official" release. (

226. Re: Suggestion (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:26:04 +0900

Does this mean that if I'm using 3.2 in my project, I'm not using an official version of Lua? What about 4.0-update? -- OpenPGP encrypted mail welcome.

227. Re: splitting the FAQ page (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:25:31 +0900

Because the Lua team lacks the time to keep the FAQ up to date, I propose to split the FAQ into two: one housed at lua.org and one housed at lua-users.org. A fresh FAQ has been started at http://lua-

228. Re: [ANNOUNCE] LuaThreads 1.0.1 (for Lua 5.0-work0) (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 01:54:21 +0900

Philippe Lhoste wrote: BTW, I will ask Lua authors to go fetch their crystal ball ;-) Do you think the C API (including lauxlib) of Lua 5.0 will be pretty stable now, or may it still have some deep c

229. lua-users lottery (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 01:21:29 +0900

See http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUsersLottery about how to win an opportunity to lose money (and help support lua-users.org). The lua-users.org site has been around for almost a year now, and the dom

230. Re: Multiple Lua states (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:22:42 +0900

const char *lua_typename (lua_State *L, int t); take a state when it doesn't do any state related stuff? This has already been discussed. Go to the lua-l archive and do a search on lua_typename. -Joh

231. Re: Lua Version (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:24:30 +0900

To get around the floating point issue, the linux kernel codes the version in hex and provides a macro for comparisons: define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) For example: ....

232. lua-users lottery last call (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:34:02 +0900

The lottery drawing will take place in about 20 hours. Thanks go out to those who have registered so far. http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUsersLottery -John -- http:// i . /

233. lottery results (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:07:41 +0900

Martin Spernau is the winner, and has agreed to pay the 2002 domain name fee for lua-users.org. I've added a new "acknowledgements" page to the site. Thanks to all who participated! -John == Lua User

234. Re: Newsgroup Interface to the lua-l Mailing List (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:27:03 +0900

Please see previous discussions about this by searching for "newsgroup" at the lua-l archive. Especially: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/1999-07/msg00098.html "ranjit_mathew" <rmathew@hotmail.com>

235. generators (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 02:14:04 +0900

IBM developWorks has run a series of articles on Python's generators, which is basically the same construct as the semi-coroutines in the development version of Lua. Note that in Python, any function

236. 4.0 bug passing directory to dofile? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:35:52 +0900

I'm expecting nil, not a userdata. Is this correct? Lua 4.0.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio userdata(0): (nil) -John -- http:// i . /

237. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 01:45:03 +0900

Hi, The alpha version looks great. I have a few questions and suggestions: * list generator I'd like to see a generator in the library for lists that doesn't include the index as ipairs does: for v i

238. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 02:40:30 +0900

So what you're suggesting is that every app or library you run on your embedded system create its own mini-printf as needed. If you have enough libraries doing that you'll go over the size of the sta

239. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:06:27 +0900

I said "libraries and apps" to be general. A single app may link to several libraries, agreed? Each library may need to do some formatted text output. (Russell thought I meant libraries on top of Lua

240. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:23:01 +0900

for v in list(t) do ... end Such generator would have to keep its own state, and so would be more expensive than `ipairs'... I'm a curious guy so I decided to test out your theory. In my simple timin