Re: Questions about writing a C library

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

It really seems like you're missing something, here.. The whole 
ideology -should we say 'world'- of Lua is a bit different. Linked 
lists. I don't see much use for them so just to save your time, the 
example might be extremely C biased.. Like, you can demo how good an 
assembler replacement C is by doing 'ax=10; ax++' code. But it never 
makes sense..

Having said that (and for your own good, so they say.. ;)  welcome to 
the world of Lua, and enjoy the learning curve. It really is, 
enjoyable.

If I were you (and I was) I'd browse through much of Lua code I can get 
my hands on, and try to 'soak' the thinking.. That's how I did with 
Basic (yeah, okay.. 80's!), assembler, C, and latest, Lua. Learning by 
reading is the best exercise.

btw, and yes, you can do 'list.Null' by using metatables for 'list'. :)

-ak


23.3.2004 kello 20:48, Phil Bewig kirjoitti:

  in learning to program in lua, and because I
> think it will be a useful library to have, I am writing a
> library to manipulate linked lists.  The library will be
> written in c, available to lua in the same manner as the
> standard libraries.  Eventually I want to have a library
> like this: