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221. Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python (score: 13)

Author: ????????? <aga.chatzimanikas@...>

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:21:48 +0200

Please, let me allow to hopefully help a bit the situation. Currently for non prime programmers (students, teachers, scientists, ...) there are two main choises: - if you want beauty and expression,

222. Re: [ANN] Cratera Compiler v1.0.0 (score: 13)

Author: Coda Highland <chighland@...>

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 21:34:38 -0500

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:48 PM Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 5:18 PM Coda Highland wrote: ECS is an inherently object-oriented technique, Apparently you

223. Re: Suggestion: names-isolation-statement (score: 13)

Author: Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>

Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:23:44 +0300

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:55 AM nobody wrote: But these two things in combination create a problem: What about to-be-defined "globals"?  (Will you have to "pre-declare" them?) I'm aware of two ways

224. Re: [BUG?] Re: The Lua utf8 library (Was: Issues: Character 160 ...) (score: 13)

Author: Gregg Reynolds <dev@...>

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:18:33 -0500

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 6:00 AM Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:59 PM Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com> wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 1:43 AM Dirk Laurie <dirk.la

225. Re: Lua high-level debugger (score: 13)

Author: Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>

Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 22:20:57 -0700

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote: Am I describing your module, or close? 1. It provides interactive debugging. 2. It takes max 5 minutes of studying the READM

226. Re: 1-based indexing in Lua or the one without zero (score: 13)

Author: Francisco Olarte <folarte@...>

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:36:11 +0200

Totally ok, but I do not understand why you point we have several ways of counting when I stated that was measuring. About points 1..2 when indexing in fortran/c/lua/python you use that, when countin

227. Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (work1) now available (score: 13)

Author: "Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>

Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:14:35 -0300

Every year or so the list has its recurrent discussion about the length operator and holes in sequences. Quite often, this discussion leads some people to propose that Lua needs an array type, differ

228. Re: A proposal for the confusing pseudo table ? array concept (score: 13)

Author: Elias Hogstvedt <eliashogstvedt@...>

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:12:46 +0100

Dirk, I think you are msising the point here a little bit. Your entire reply is just "it can be done in lua already so there's no point" but that's not what this is about. I know that this can be don

229. Re: Update on GC performance (github version) (score: 13)

Author: Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>

Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:10:21 -0800

I just finished reading about Virtual Memory paging in the FreeBSD kernel [1]. (I'm hoping this is reasonably accurate) All pages live for at least two page collection cycles before being moved in to

230. Re: [PATCH] Loop Overflow Bug Fix (score: 13)

Author: Paige DePol <lual@...>

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:16:28 -0600

I know, I had to go look up what the names were for such large numbers! ;) I'm not "worried" really, it has been an educating experience. The patch really isn't that significant, it's just an adjustm

231. Re: Beginner to programming. References to understand terms. (score: 13)

Author: Coda Highland <chighland@...>

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:39:39 -0700

I disagree. It's convenient to make linear containers, associative containers, and fixed structures all use the same implementation in terms of language design; there's definitely a certain elegance

232. Re: lua without OS calls for embedded systems (score: 13)

Author: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>

Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:22:53 -0300

Also for the record, I have done a small "guide" about how to avoid (or not) the above functions in the core. * The following functions are easy to implement in ISO C: - abs - memcmp - memcpy - strc

233. Re: Computation error in tonumber? (score: 13)

Author: K? Mykolas <kamicc@...>

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:41:41 +0300

Lua 5.2 uses floating point number (C's double) for numbers. Lua 5.3 uses 64-bit integers as well as floating point numbers. -- Best regards, Boris Nagaev

234. Re: Computation error in tonumber? (score: 13)

Author: Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:14:04 +0100

Lua 5.2 uses floating point number (C's double) for numbers. Lua 5.3 uses 64-bit integers as well as floating point numbers. -- Best regards, Boris Nagaev

235. Re: [LPeg] How can I signal parsing errors with LPeg? (score: 13)

Author: "Soni L." <fakedme@...>

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:25:19 -0300

I see. I'd still prefer :match itself to emit nil, errmsg with a dynamically generated errmsg. And here is the *FIRST* time you mention dynamically generated error messages. Yeah, and I'd prefer you

236. Re: [LPeg] How can I signal parsing errors with LPeg? (score: 13)

Author: "Soni L." <fakedme@...>

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 11:19:48 -0300

local escape = lpeg.P"\\ " / " " + lpeg.P"\\\\" / "\\" + lpeg.P"\\#" / "#" + lpeg.P"\\>" / ">" + lpeg.P"\\" / "" + lpeg.P"\\n" / "\n" + lpeg.P"\\" * lpeg.Cmt(lpeg.Carg(1) * lpeg.C(1), function(subjec

237. Re: New array type? (was: 'table' as fallback for tables) (score: 13)

Author: "Soni L." <fakedme@...>

Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:57:54 -0300

On 07/07/16 09:22 AM, Peter Aronoff wrote: "Soni L." <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote: You need to think of Lua tables as C strings. Two comments: 1. I have no idea at this point if this is sarcasm or not.

238. Re: [ANN] Lift 0.1 looking for early adopters (score: 13)

Author: Tim Caswell <tim@...>

Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:50:21 -0600

Hi! Chiming in just to say I'm listening and enjoying this conversation and open for suggestions for improvement and collaboration. I'd love to hear which features are perceived as lacking in LuaRoc

239. Re: [ANN] Lift 0.1 looking for early adopters (score: 13)

Author: Thiago Bastos <tbastos@...>

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:07:41 +0000

Hi! Chiming in just to say I'm listening and enjoying this conversation and open for suggestions for improvement and collaboration. I'd love to hear which features are perceived as lacking in LuaRoc

240. Re: big planz around Lua [1/2] (score: 13)

Author: "szbnwer@..." <szbnwer@...>

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:14:34 +0100

Duncan Cross: i only read about LuaJIT, but it seemz good to me, as i think it shud contain a lotsa goodies for my goal (ive kept it 4 later uze after other priorz). wich is generatin immediately cod