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61. Re: What do you miss most in Lua (score: 28)

Author: Egil Hjelmeland <privat@...>

Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:11:12 +0100

What about sorting/collating? That would be useful. But is that a big-table-thing in Unicode? Best regards ignorant Egil On 2012-02-07 22:40, Jay Carlson wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Miles

62. Re: What do you miss most in Lua (score: 28)

Author: Jay Carlson <nop@...>

Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:40:09 +0000

So I started down this path, and realized the same thing Miles did: I very rarely did this. General multilingual text is far more complicated than ASCII, and there's not much one really can do in, sa

63. [ANN] vstruct 1.0.1 (score: 28)

Author: Ben Kelly <ranavin@...>

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:07:46 -0400

That's right, it's out of beta! 1.0.x is now feature complete; everything else is just bugfixing, and I'm starting work on 1.1. You may be wondering why 1.0 was never announced. Well, shortly after I

64. Re: a topic dedicated for Soni (was: [PATCH] Loop Overflow Bug Fix) (score: 26)

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

Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:59:21 +0100

2017-11-24 14:35 GMT+01:00 Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net>: im feeling really bad about myself :( i didnt want others to talk about him, but i wanted to ask him to give a better insight at his own

65. Re: Currency representation in Lua (score: 26)

Author: Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>

Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 21:27:44 -0400

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Diogo Mildenberger <diogo.milde@gmail.com> wrote:   Has someone any experience to share about implementing a system that deals with currency values? I have already bee

66. [ANN] LuaJIT Roadmap 2011 (score: 26)

Author: Mike Pall <mikelu-1101@...>

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:06:28 +0100

LuaJIT Roadmap 2011 -- LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time (JIT) Compiler for Lua. It's compatible with standard Lua 5.1 and can significantly boost the performance of your Lua programs. LuaJIT is open source s

67. FW: Lua on mobile phone (score: 26)

Author: "Daniel Collins" <daniel.collins@...>

Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:52:56 +1030

Nice. I don't know if I need all the libraries anyway, and I find it pretty easy to provide my own functions with the same signature as the std library functions, then using a macro to redefine the

68. Re: Multi-process C calling Lua: sharing data between Lua scripts? (score: 25)

Author: "John Logsdon" <j.logsdon@...>

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:46:27 +0100

The database solution is not immediately useful where there are lua tables etc. sqlite can store string, binary, float and integer but not a structure which needs to be stored as a lua table, ie as a

69. Re: block-scope finalization (score: 25)

Author: Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:10:00 -0500

I'd like to point out that Lua doesn't actually need a new compound block syntax (like Python's "with") because it does real lexical scoping. Python needs a new control block because the duration of

70. Re: please drop whatever you're doing and add -fPIC to all your rockspecs. (score: 25)

Author: Peter Cawley <lua@...>

Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:15:48 +0000

One example: Some random developer decides to compile their DLLs with fixed base addresses - perhaps under the guise of a smaller resulting file size (no relocation segment) or faster execution (call

71. Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated RedHat RPMs of Lua 4.0 (score: 25)

Author: Andre Costa <brblueser@...>

Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:29:07 -0300

Hi Daniel, My Freshmeat records show another entry for Lua Debian pages: http://www.place.org/~nop/lua/debian/ AFAIK Jay Carlson [nop@nop.com] is responsible for them. Of course there could be multip

72. Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python (score: 24)

Author: Eretnek Hippi Messiás <hippi777@...>

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:57:27 +0000

hi folks! :) this will be somewhat even more offtopic, but its still about the real power of lua, there will be bits between the lines that are related to some of the ongoing topics, and probably it

73. RE: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch? (score: 24)

Author: "Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:40:06 -0400

I think using a custom number format is the way to go, since it will allow very natural programming in Lua (userdata have different semantics than numbers in Lua). For the way to replace the number f

74. Re: Integer patch for Lua 5.1 final (score: 24)

Author: whisper@...

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:46:56 -0800

Daniel Collins wrote: The integer patch (assuming we're talking about the same thing) isn't a fixed-point patch, I believe; instead it makes the VM use integer maths for integer values where feasible

75. Re: ?lua table?Different hashes are chained together?is it bug? (score: 23)

Author: Philippe Verdy <verdyp@...>

Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:16:45 +0200

And if a small fixed number of tables with varying sizes is still not enough for the goals, you can extend this scheme to use B-trees: each page of a B-tree can be sequential or hashed subtable, and

76. Re: [Iup-users] (UTF-8 / UTF-16 / Unicode) Request (score: 23)

Author: sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@...>

Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 10:22:26 +1030

IUP already use Unicode strings when setting and retrieving native element strings. The problem is we can NOT change the IUP API without breaking compatibility with several thousands of lines of code

77. Re: Currency representation in Lua (score: 23)

Author: Scott Condit <socode@...>

Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 06:01:28 +0100

If you are writing financial programs for e.g. mark-to-model present value, risk and so forth, it?s quite typical for these do deal with doubles only [across huge swathes of systems in banks and inve

78. Re: [patch][c++] fix conversion from const char* (score: 23)

Author: Scott Condit <socode@...>

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:59:42 +0100

79. Re: [patch][c++] fix "invalid conversion from ?void*? to ?char*?" (score: 23)

Author: Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:13:56 +0300

See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html "Lua is implemented as a library, written in clean C (that is, in the common subset of ANSI C and C++). " -- Best regards, Boris Nagaev

80. Re: [patch][c++] fix "invalid conversion from ?void*? to ?char*?" (score: 23)

Author: Sean Conner <sean@...>

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:05:13 -0400

It was thus said that the Great Coda Highland once stated: And Lua is written in C89, which does *not* need the cast, nor should one be added by PUC. Unless there's a lstrlib.cc file hiding in the Lu