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

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:43:47 -0400

If I'm on limited bandwidth, I want to just get messages which are important. IMAP is quite effective here. Message headers are downloaded efficiently, and a message body is copied to my local machin

322. lua-users lottery results (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:34:41 -0400

Thanks go out to everyone who participated in the lottery this year. We had a good showing. Also thanks to the winner, Marius Gheorghe, who has covered the lua-users.org domain fee this year. http://

323. Re: Limitations of standard C, formal interfaces, and othermusings. Was: ms-level timings (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:43:06 -0400

Rici Lake wrote: I realise that we are probably not going to get to the level of defining a standard interface for the FreeBSD kqueue call or Mac OS X equivalent which you can use to receive notifica

324. Re: PepperfishProfiler (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:19:32 -0400

I would ask that you do this, simply because the code is posted on the wiki, which is a public and informal place. If you are going to license code on the wiki rather than allowing it into the public

325. Re: PepperfishProfiler (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:06:39 -0400

Ah, but an advantage of a Wiki is history tracking. Of course this still implies a trust of the site maintainers as they can change things without adding to the history log, modify the history log it

326. Re: Wiki code is free as in free range? Was: PepperfishProfiler (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:41:49 -0400

I suggest the only change be that we discourage the assertion of copyrights on the wiki. If we want the success of the wiki to continue, I think it's best to keep this can of worms tightly shut, as 9

327. Re: Re : luachip (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:29:19 -0400

Its atomic section must traverse all stacks and all weak tables of the program. If you have lots of them (and they are big) the atomic step may take a while to complete. Moreover, each atomic step do

328. Re: select (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:38:44 -0400

select(i,..) --> slice(i, i, ...) skip(i, ...) --> slice(i, ...) first(...) --> slice(1, 1, ...) first(i, ...) --> slice(1, i, ...) tail(...) --> slice(2, ...) last(...) --> slice(-1, ...) last(i, ..

329. Re: Lua-users.org wiki: SciTE script bug (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:39:47 -0500

Ok, wiki edits are working again. -John As a SciTE user looking for some comfort functions, I found <http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteBufferSwitch>, but it didn't work - because in do_buffer_list() the

330. Re: coroutines support (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:26:40 -0500

Sorry, I renamed the page before seeing this post. The new page is referenced on <http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaPowerPatches>. -John

331. wiki despamming & beating a dead horse (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:48:02 -0500

Sorry in advance for the noise. Whoever is doing empty wiki page commits with comments like "Despamming again to get it off the stupid diff link", please stop. This is pointless for two reasons: 1) O

332. lua-users.org locked during move (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:08:03 -0500

The lua-users.org wiki and file area will be locked for a day or two as the site's web hosting moves from sourceforge.net to pepperfish.net. -John

333. Re: Lua 5.1 packaging -- how to participate? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:03:53 -0500

Hi Asko, At least for Debian, there are many packaging rules to follow, and the details are best left up to package maintainers assigned by the organization producing the distribution. Regarding the

334. Re: Flush the term upvalue from 5.1 manual (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:30:44 -0500

Roberto, in his talks, freely admits that "upvalue" is not the best term. However, do we want to replace every instance of "upvalue" in the C API with "inherited_binding_reference"? Please let's not

335. 5.1 beta problem linking luac against .so (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:02:43 -0500

I can link lua interpreter against the .so form of the Lua library, but when linking luac the following undefined's come up: luac.o: In function `pmain': luac.c:(.text+0x1f2): undefined reference to

336. Re: Wiki manners? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:07:40 -0500

In the case that the text isn't written in the first person, by all means please fix such mistakes. Otherwise it's more of a gray issue-- I'd say use your best judgment. For example, reorganizing sen

337. Makefile improvement (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:09:04 -0500

In the Lua 5.1 makefiles, I wonder if we could abolish MYCFLAGS, etc. in favor of appending to variables with the "+=" construct. The issue with the current makefiles is that if one overrides CFLAGS

338. Re: searching the lua-l archive (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:58:41 -0500

The lua-l search has been misbehaving since about the time we moved to Pepperfish. I hope I've got it fixed now. However, you still can't search for "Lua". You'll have to be more specific :) Referenc

339. Re: searching the lua-l archive (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:33:35 -0500

Never mind, I've fixed that also.

340. missing lua_typename docs (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:42:40 -0500

It looks like lua_typename is missing from the 5.1 Reference Manual. --John