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111. Re: Arrays and Tables (score: 41)

Author: nobody <nobody+lua-list@...>

Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 04:14:19 +0200

I think not, I don't see anything useful that this would add. Tables work just fine as arrays (and they're optimized for that use.) Just having a different type doesn't improve anything. (If type err

112. Re: string.sub and __call metamethod (score: 39)

Author: "David Manura" <dm.lua@...>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:14:17 -0400

For any aggregate data structure, extracting its members is a very basic and necessary operation that many other operations can be defined in terms of. In indexing an array, tuple, or sequence, a_{k}

113. Re: Lua is about to become history (score: 37)

Author: Chris Marrin <chris@...>

Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 07:53:43 -0700

I think you have to be very careful about making this case. How tolerant of backwards-incompatibility do you thing the Lua user base would be if the Lua authors modernized the language to support ze

114. Re: Lua is about to become history (score: 37)

Author: Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>

Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:55:26 +0100 (BST)

I think you have to be very careful about making this case. How tolerant of backwards-incompatibility do you thing the Lua user base would be if the Lua authors modernized the language to support ze

115. merge Lua tables and Lua functions in a single data structure (was: Dead Batteries) (score: 36)

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

Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:42:36 +0000

116. Re: Table slices (score: 36)

Author: Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>

Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 23:12:42 +0100

No, as the slice directly accesses the data of the table it points to. It is actually faster than performing row/column calculations and accessing the parent table. I guess couple of things help. The

117. Re: lua-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 157 (score: 36)

Author: Tomas Lundell <tomas.lundell@...>

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:02:09 +1100

Message: 7 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:22:27 +0100 From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> Subject: Re: hpairs? To: lua-l@lists.lua.org Message-ID: <8762ublfvg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Type: text/plain To

118. Re: Update to Wiki refused (score: 33)

Author: John Belmonte <john@...>

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:27:09 -0700

I just spent about 45 minutes reworking the LuaPowerPatches page, and at the end of it, I get "Sorry, your change was not accepted". As I made a smaller change to the power patches archive page in th

119. Update to Wiki refused (score: 33)

Author: Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:51:21 +0000

I just spent about 45 minutes reworking the LuaPowerPatches page, and at the end of it, I get "Sorry, your change was not accepted". As I made a smaller change to the power patches archive page in th

120. Re: Lua and text-representation (score: 33)

Author: David Given <dg@...>

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:17:44 +0000

On 2010-03-01 17:35, Gavin Wraith wrote: If Lua is to be embedded in such an application it would be nice to use the memory allocation that comes with Lua. In that case one might use two lists, one i