Re: Lua 5.1 (alpha): Documentation "bug" and suggestions

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Klaus Ripke wrote:
> No doubt stock Lua is not going to trade gsub for snGlobalSubstitute,

Too bad :-) Every time I see gsub, I mentally pronounce it "gosub", 
thanks to years spent in programming 8-bit computers in Basic... I can't 
help it.
Actually, I wondered what gsub meant, thanks. ;-)

> but since it is good practice to localize (sic) imports, you may

Is that so?

> 	require "hungarian" -- adds long names to all available libs
> or introduce german notation using
> 	local snGlobaleErsetzung = string.gsub -- jawoll ;P

Argh, maybe that can make more readable listings (arguably), but it 
feels much like using C pre-processor to rename standard function 
names... Or, for some Pascal nostalgics, replace { by begin and } by 
end. I saw that in actual code...
Or one putting a long network code in a unique file, starting by 
redefining printf to pf, while by w or similar stuff. Sure it was open 
source, but author was also sure to be the only one to touch this code...

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