Re: "namespaces" ?

[Dominik Wagner <dominik-wagner@...>]

On Freitag, April 19, 2002, at 07:35 , lua-l@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > often anyway.  I.e. you want to write t:append(e) instead
> > of Table.append(t,a) or x:sin() instead of Number.sin(x).

Some intervention here: please don't include all the oo-concepts in such 
simple things in lua directly! It's wonderful that you can have a decent 
way of object oriented programming, but don't make everything oo. If you 
want to do this then user ruby or something like thats. IMHO that's 
definetly the wrong way for lua.

A basic rule for my personal lua-programming is the following:
If you need a handle, (e.g. for files) then making an object out of the 
whole thing may be the better solution. But even then, think about it 
first. But please don't force me to do something like this everytime i 
want a sine of a number

math.number(55).sin()

please!

sin(55)

is much better, simpler, cleaner.

dom

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