Re: Experience with Large Applications in Lua?

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

A valuable aid I've found (and a simple one!) is tracking any 
uninitialised global usage.

This helps a _lot_ since it finds variable name typos etc. bugs that 
would otherwise go unnoticed.

For code, see Scripts/globals.lua in LuaX sources.

-ak


6.7.2004 kello 09:37, Steve Donovan kirjoitti:

 Hi guys,
> I was wondering what experience people have with larger systems
> in Lua.  I know that the central idea is that Lua isn't intended for
> large programs, but I was curious to see how people on this
> list have pushed the envelope.  It's increasingly clear to me that
> what makes a language suitable for larger scale is being able
> to have separate namespaces (which tables do very nicely) and
> being able to navigate in code.  Lua carries a lot of metadata
> which should make this very possible.
>
> steve d.
>
>
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