Unicode sources

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Has anyone tried to do Lua code in .rtf?

That is, a reader (chunk loader, whatever) that reads in not .lua (raw ansi text) but a document that can have bold, italics, underlinings, even pictures.

I had this idea about 10 years back, using Borland C++. Why couldn't source have commenting pictures etc. attached right there. But it doesn't. Not even in 2003. :)

-ak



John Mckenna kirjoittaa keskiviikkona, 5. maaliskuuta 2003, kello 11:56:

> Alex Bilyk writes:
>
> > > 'flags = FOO_BLUEPANTS + FOO_3PLANES + FOO_EDIBLE' ?
>
> > This will result in totally unreadable/misinterpreted code, IMHO. The
> > assumption that '+' can somehow intuitively be realted to '|' is ungrounded
> > to say the least.
>
> On the "all programming languages look like C" planet, perhaps.  For the
> rest of us, the use of | for a set union operator is totally baffling.
>
> My first choice would be the standard mathematical symbols.  But that
> requires Unicode - maybe the industry will have got its act together in ten
> years or so.  I want to be able to type these things easily.
>
> My second choice: + for union, - for difference (A - B is the members of A
> that are not members of B), and * for intersection.  The empty set is nil.
> Then you can say
>
> FOO_ALL = FOO_BLUEPANTS + FOO_3PLANES + FOO_EDIBLE + FOO_WOBBLY + FOO_ALIEN
> if flags * (FOO_ALL - FOO_EDIBLE) then
> end
>
> I believe this can be implemented in pure Lua, or with C helper functions
> for speed.  Certainly no changes to the core language are required.
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