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301. Re: Lua-users Wiki (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:41:40 -0600

As far as I can tell, this problem is the result of a SourceForge server issue. I've set up a workaround which should take care of it. -John -- http:// if ile.o g/

302. Re: mostly off-topic, OGDL, a data specification language (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:12:48 -0500

Isn't it trivial (a few lines of Lua code) to convert from the OGDL syntax to Lua, at least in the case of your example? -John -- http:// if ile.org/

303. Re: lazy xml teaser (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:08:04 -0500

Jay Carlson wrote: Why is this interesting? Trees are a natural data model to process XML documents. A simple tree implementation reads the entire document into memory at once. For large documents, t

304. Re: Lua short reference part 1 - draft 1 (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:56:13 -0500

For the people who are having trouble downloading the document I put it on the wiki. Good; that solves the DNS update problem (I moved my pages about a week ago). Due to the size of this file and its

305. Re: using array nature for microoptimization (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:49:30 -0500

That is generally true of table-as-vector functions. If you don't specify n, either as a key or with a call to table.setn(), the library has to do a complete scan of all keys to find the largest int

306. Re: [announce] New LTN (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:39:34 -0400

You might be interested in this Python implementation, which overloads the "|" operator to allow shell-like syntax. The original article site seems to be broken, so here is a cached copy: <http://64.

307. Re: The Lua 5.1(work) GC (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:07:57 -0400

Roberto wrote: Not at all. Quite the opposite: we also have little idea of what this factor (and the other constants as well) should be. We need real users with real uses (like you!!) to give us feed

308. Re: The Lua 5.1(work) GC (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:42:28 -0400

Trevor Powell wrote: this is what I wanted: "just specify the amount of wasted memory to be tolerated as a percentage of in-use memory, with higher tolerance translating to lower GC overhead". Wherea

309. Re: The Lua 5.1(work) GC (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:52:18 -0400

I'm not sure about that. It seems much easier to ensure worst-case memory with a mark-and-sweep collector. CPU usage (average) also seems to increase with an incremental GC, due to higher administrat

310. Re: Difference between liblua.a and liblualib.a? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:26:48 -0400

"liblua.a" is the actual Lua core, which provides the Lua C API. "liblualib.a" uses the Lua C API to implement Lua's standard libraries. -John -- http://giftfile.org/ :: giftfile project

311. Re: New long comments in 5.1 (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:04:39 -0400

--[**[ ]**] then why can;t you just define two new words in the syntax, which are [[[ and ]]] ? The goal is to be able to contain anything within a long string or comment. In what you propose, how co

312. Re: wiki question (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:10:10 -0400

See <http://lua-users.org/wiki/ThisWikiImplementation>. -John -- http://giftfile.org/ :: giftfile project

313. Re: Perforce (Re: [ANN] LuaForge Phase I) (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:06:49 -0400

Do you have experience comparing p4 with cvs, subversion or others? I met their people at a fair, tried it out and have had no needs to switch. CVS got me trying to do the installation (win32) all to

314. Re: Syntactic sugar idea: Safe use of nil (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:33:02 -0400

In other languages (e.g. Python), I think you'd be employing exceptions in this kind of situation. It seems like Lua has the low-level mechanisms in place to support some kind of exception construct.

315. Re: We need a forum! (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:08:13 -0400

He is suggesting a real forum, with threads that are organized, user accounts, and a real search utility. Something such as phpBB if I am not mistaken. I would have to agree with him. I'm not a big f

316. Re: We need a forum! (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:41:46 -0400

Michael Cumming wrote: Interesting discussion so far. I did not think there would be so many mail list holdovers :) In reality, mailing lists are in decline. This is the last list that I belong to. A

317. Re: We need a forum! (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 10:13:59 -0400

lhf wrote: On the other hand, we the Lua team obviously want to the Lua community as best as we can. I'm all in favor of creating a forum, but we the team cannot do it. The place to do it is at lua-u

318. Re: We need a forum! (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:09:17 -0400

Michael Cumming wrote: Well, we could debate the relative merits of one means of communicating versus another to no end. The fact is that mail lists are in decline and the reasons are obvious. The re

319. Re: We need a forum! (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:00:20 -0500

Brett Kapilik wrote: That being said, I have re-created a Lua forum at http://www.icynorth.com/fourms. How about this, everyone who is interested in getting Lua forums going can go there and discuss

320. lua-users lottery (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:05:12 -0400

See <http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUsersLottery> for an opportunity to lose money (and help support lua-users.org). The lua-users.org site, which recently reached one million page views, is going into