RE: Lua 4.0

[Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@...>]

Just to clarify this quote a little more.  I remember making
the quote, just not when...

I do still use Lua (it is central to our real-time cinematics
system here) and I still prefer Lua to C++ in general.  I pretty 
much prefer anything (including ANSI C when possible) to C++.  
Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, one still finds cases 
where C++ is the most non-square peg for a round hole.  

Has Luiz has said, no flame wars please.

Paul



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo [mailto:lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Lua 4.0
> 
> 
> >By the way, in lua 3.2 lua_dostring() takes a
> >char * instead of a const char *. This necessitates some 
> ugly casts in
> >the client code. Will this be fixed in lua 4.0?
> 
> All strings in the C API have been changed to const char * in 4.0.
> See 4.0 alpha for a try run.
> 
> I guess the casts you mention are only necessary in C++, but 
> Lua has a C API.
> :-)
> 
> I can't resist a quote from our quotes page:
> 
> "I use Lua because I like the language more than C++."
> -- Paul Bleisch, in rec.games.programmer.
> 
> (I'm sorry, I don't mean to star a flame war.)
> --lhf
>