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241. Re: Globals in 5.0 Alpha (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:39:57 +0900

Here is my stab at modules in 5.0 using the new globals control. The Lua team did a good job of reducing the complexity of the original globals plan, and yet the result is still very powerful. There

242. Re: Globals in 5.0 Alpha (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:24:22 +0900

namespace mynamespace function foo() ... end endnamespace Where "namespace" and "endnamespace" are functions that perform the swapping and storing of the functions and the global environment... I'll

243. Re: Globals in 5.0 Alpha (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:00:48 +0900

local f = loadfile(filename) local new_namespace = {...} setglobals(f, new_namespace) f() -- run the chunk I like this form because modules can be written without regard to a namespace, Python-style.

244. Re: virtual machine [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 (alpha) now available] (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 02:41:40 +0900

The main disadvantage is that the code generator is much more complex. Has the code generation become slower? -- http:// i . /

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

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:35:58 +0900

local t = {1,2} for i=1,2^20 do local s=0 for k in list(t) do s=s+k end end I'm not sure what you're saying. Both your test and my original one show list and ipair as having the same time performance

246. about linking to the lua-l archive (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:16:15 +0900

Try not to link to lua-l archive messages of the current month, because at the end of every month the archive is regenerated to match the latest de-spammed archive, likely shifting the message number

247. Re: Modifying a Closure in 5.0 Alpha (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:58:16 +0900

Right, unfortunately I need to add (or replace, if I added a nil, as you say) the values on an existing function. I'm not within this function, -John -- http:// i . /

248. Re: GC "survey" (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:25:04 +0900

I have little interest in a generational collector. It's going to add complexity for uncertain return. It won't help graphical applications that have to meet a hard video frame deadline (such as when

249. Re: Globals in 5.0 Alpha (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:07:22 +0900

I don't agree that it's obscure. Anyway, now that Lua has banished tag methods, inspired from your Sol work, we have room for a little new complexity :-). Especially when it's useful. 1) You no longe

250. Re: binary files (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:59:35 +0900

I just noticed there aren't any functions for reading/writting binary files in the lua standard library, I would like to suggest the addition of them. Something like: fh:readb( "pattern", [num] ) fh:

251. Re: lua-l archive at lua-users.org (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:06:47 -0500

The page http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/ is showing only one line, There was an anomaly with the monthly build (and for some reason I ignored the cron error report). The archive is up again, search

252. Re: Lua 5.0 alpha documentation (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:20:11 -0500

As always, it is a pleasant reading, the document is clear and well written. A bit terse in some areas though, some more examples in the library section would help... I don't see it as a end user doc

253. Re: out of memory (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 14:56:02 -0500

Enrico Colombini wrote: function Flame() if some_condition then say[[ you are in a vast room whose other end is lost in the distance;\n the room is crammed full of Lua programmers hotly debating a mi

254. Re: out of memory (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:18:04 -0500

Yes, of course, but that's just a way to program around the 'long constant string' issue :-) The same problem arises when defining strings that must be aligned in some way. For example, while program

255. Re: object methods as first class values (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:25:08 -0600

that's not valid, but could be written as: ok.onClick.add( app.exit, app ) the first sintax is more natural since you already do app:exit() to call the method. I'm wondering if 'app:exit' could be ex

256. Re: lua for unicode (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:54:00 -0600

Björn De Meyer wrote: Exactly. Unicode doesn't even support the full range of (Chinese) Kanji characters used in Japanese. Unicode was in the beginning an evil microsoft invention, in which they trie

257. Re: lua for unicode (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:14:40 -0600

Björn De Meyer wrote: The other more important problem wich I mention here is CJK unification. If I am not mistaken, even in Unicode of these days, many Chinese, Japanese and Korean ideographs have n

258. Re: Wiki page with "Lua AddOns" broken? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:42:49 -0600

The wiki was wiped out again by a mean sourceforge user. I restored the wiki from backup. Changes in the last 12 hours may have been lost. Should that cause anyone grief, Martin Spernau may have a fr

259. Re: Wiki page with "Lua AddOns" broken? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:18:15 -0500

Oops. That should be fixed now. Thanks, -John -- http:// if . /

260. lua-users wiki RSS feed (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:29:33 -0500

An RSS feed for recent changes at the lua-users wiki is now available. This lets you monitor wiki changes remotely. The RSS link is at http://lua-users.org/wiki/RecentChanges. For RSS news reader sof