Re: Some small requests for the next release

[Chris Chapman <canis.lupus@...>]

No, I have the book, and have been working with Lua for a while now,
just for some reason I blind-spotted both the obvious locations where
the type() function is mentioned - even though its an obvious name for
the functionality I needed.


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:45:39 +0100, PA <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:28, Chris Chapman wrote:
> 
> > Ah, this would be a RTFM moment.
> >
> > <shuffles off into corner and hides>
> 
> Well... personally... I found it quite difficult to get started with
> Lua as well... due perhaps to the language intrinsic amorphism...
> 
> Your best bet is to order Roberto's book as it brings some sense and
> purpose to the language:
> 
> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/book/
> 
> The manual itself is much less useful, but has the merit of existing in
> the first place:
> 
> http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/
> 
> The wiki has some handy resources as well:
> 
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/SampleCode
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/PersistentTables
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/StandardLibraries
> 
> That said, the wiki is pretty much opaque at first glance, as there is
> no search function to start with... very frustrating :/
> 
> Cheers
> 
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