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41. Re: serialization (score: 1)

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

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:36:12 +0900

repository Don't forget that lua-l's eGroups files repository is also available.

42. Re: request (score: 1)

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

Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:42:07 +0900

declared in Lua. Can't you use the setglobal tag method on nil? In the tag method just check for the new value being a function. I'm doing this in my old overloaded function example (http://www.egrou

43. avoiding keyword conflicts (score: 1)

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

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:41:44 +0900

I recommend that in the future lua_XXX names be avoided where XXX is a C or C++ keyword. The reason is that when the API is put into a namespace (using namespace, class etc.) the "lua_" is naturally

44. lua_type and default tags (score: 1)

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

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:35:39 +0900

Is it a coincidence that the enumeration returned by lua_type() matches the default tag numbers of each type? Would it make sense to add this to the spec so we may rely on it? -John

45. about objects freeing tagmethod resources, etc (score: 1)

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

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:57:44 +0900

Recently there was a discussion about the removal of table gc events from 4.0. I agree that destructors aren't needed in most cases for a language with garbage collection. However one unavoidable cas

46. Re: integer Lua 4.0 (score: 1)

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

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:54:57 +0900

The issue I have with this method is that I can't verify it (short of wading through preprocessor output). If some header is in the wrong order or omitted then you end up with the wrong types. Anothe

47. Re: integer Lua 4.0 (score: 1)

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

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:33:32 +0900

Then why not use the lint32 type already defined, so that the programmer's requirement is explicit and so that we may configure a different type when a long is more than 32 bits and possibly innefici

48. Re: [Announce] LuaSock 1.0 available (score: 1)

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

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:37:09 +0900

Hello, I'm wondering if a library that uses such general global names as "close" would conflict too easily with other Lua programs. A limited solution would be to make lua_socklibopen() take an optio

49. weak references (score: 1)

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

Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:49:49 +0900

Taking Roberto's hint I've worked out weak references, at least on paper. -John p.s. I'm wondering about the Technical Notes... is this kind of content suitable? -- ** Weak references for Lua ** Syno

50. global scope revisited (score: 1)

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

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:51:37 +0900

I've written before about issues regarding Lua treating the global scope as a special case. I'd like to try again, hopefully with a clearer description of the problem and proposed Lua change. With Lu

51. Re: Lua-Website (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <comewhatmay@...>

Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:33:54 -0800 (PST)

I recommend, instead of a discussion board, to set up a wiki server for the Lua community. Wiki is a system for HTML collaboration. (There are dozens of implementations to choose from, and it would b

52. Re: Lua-Website (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <comewhatmay@...>

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 07:52:57 -0800 (PST)

I didn't know about Swiki.net. I wouldn't call it a wiki implementation but rather the "EGroups" for wiki's. I'm concerned though that they have no privacy policy posted and require email and home ad

53. Re: global scope revisited (score: 1)

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

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:02:07 +0900

I've attached the backward compatibility tag methods (mostly just copied from the Lua manual) along with a simple test. I don't quite understand the issue you mentioned. If you can think of some reas

54. Re: Lua-Website (score: 1)

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

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:01:24 +0900

For those interested, I wrote to Swiki.Net about their privacy policy and this reply came: Thank you for your interest at swiki.net. We do not and will not sell or give your information away to anyon

55. Re: Lua logos in PS (score: 1)

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

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:26:02 +0900

I've found that enabling graphic antialiasing causes the dotted line to change appearance. Is this a common problem with postscript? part that

56. Re: Making lua case insensitive (score: 1)

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

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:49:34 +0900

from within automatically look in This could be done, if only the changes to the treatment of the global scope that I've been whining about since April would be implemented. Maybe you are giving me c

57. Re: Making lua case insensitive (score: 1)

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

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:55:13 +0900

-John scope

58. Re: Making lua case insensitive (score: 1)

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

Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:15:05 +0900

current user switches simpler syntax. I don't agree that it would be so bad. One implementation is in the field fullName you'd have a wrapper object whose "function" event is set to something like: f

59. Lua Wiki (score: 1)

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

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:03:36 +0900

The Lua Wiki is online at http://lua.swiki.net/. Thomas Praxl had wanted to set up a site for Lua-related things, and I had suggested starting a wiki. Thomas found Swiki.net which offers free hosting

60. Re: Garbage collector issues (score: 1)

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

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:23:13 +0900

If it is a graphics app why not just call collectgarbage() once per frame to force collection?