Re: idea of vision of blueprint of ROADMAP of Lua core

[Wim Couwenberg <wcou@...>]

> Even better: what could be removed? (Half-joking :o)

My tentative list:

-  function environments (see (1) below)
-  coroutines (is there *anyone* at all who agrees??  :-)  )
-  mutable upvalues (see (2) below)
-  proxy constructions

And some pluses:

+  __pairs metamethod
+  __settable, __gettable metamethods


(1)  I hazard a guess that gunction environments are mainly used to 
"package" functions in some way (sandboxing and what not).  This could 
also be realised with upvalues (global name lookup in an upvalue instead 
of fenv)

(2)  I actually like the current possibility to "forward declare" locals 
(gives us cleaner recursive functions a/o).  What would be sufficient 
for me is that upvalues can not be assigned to in a closure and that the 
closure receives a (private) copy of the value when the upvalue goes out 
of scope.


Small lists no?  :-D


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Wim