Re: Lua and Saint-Exupery?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 22:31, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> Both will lead to the same function getting executed but with a 
> different
> value for the first parameter. If x is a table, then the error may not 
> be
> detected particularly promptly.

Not trying to push my point too forcefully here, but... precisely! :P

Lua is already amorphous enough as it is. The colon notation and other 
loose ends simply compound the problem. There is a rule of diminishing 
returns which applies here.

Cheers

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