Re: Experience with Large Applications in Lua?

["Steve Donovan" <sjdonova@...>]

>>> adam@gimp.org 07/07/04 01:41PM >>>
> Something along those lines is good (and necessary, for
> overloading) but it doesn't entirely tickle my fancy in terms
> of syntax... it looks too much like the natural syntax for
> constructors.

How about this then:

  function foobar(x,y) ;   String(x);  MyClass(y);
     ...
  end

Looks just like old-fashioned K&R C  ;)

These functions of course contain the assert as Daniel has
them;  it could be possible to generate them automatically
from their underlying types.

There's always the _documentation_ aspect of parameter
types, of course, as Ivan points out.   I remember getting
confused looking at Python code, wondering what the hell
was _supposed_ to be passed to a function.

steve d.



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