I have seen "use the proxy table" answers on one too many occasions.
Before the flame war hungry folks jump in, let me state up front that
Lua is a great language, simple, extensible, what have you and I will
not blink my eyes should you throw some miracle at me that is possible
with Lua.
I am not sure about others (but I suspect there are a few who share my
sentiment), but in -=systems integrations=- (where scripting languages
are
playing a crucial role more and more) having to UNDERSTAND and
implement
the "proxy table design pattern" is a bummer [for the "menial"
programmers]
because it stands in the way of a "speedy" solution - no matter how
trivial the implementation MAY be. This could easily suck away anywhere
from 2 - 8 hours of searching, having the "hmmm....aha" moment and
finally
the implementation game.
The fact that this question has come up so many times would suggest
that
there is a cause for reifying the design pattern into a primitive (i.e.
integrated into the core) - unless this causes excessive code bloat,
significant performance loss or the core becomes non portable.
It's not that I don't want to understand this pattern; I just do not
have the time and I do not want to create it for every project that
I work with that uses Lua.
</end rambling>
So the question is this: is it worth requesting this as a feature in
5.1?
cheers
Vijay Aswadhati
