lunacy

[Gregg Reynolds <dev@...>]

Thanks to all who responded to my question about iteration with skips.
Very helpful.  I'm going with recursion, because a) I miss my cars and
cdrs; and b) I forgot to mention that I have a list of lists, for which
recursion is quite natural.

Here's a proposal for the wiki.  Howsabout a "Lexicon of Lua Idioms"
section?  The idea would be to adhere to a more-or-less formal
structure, along the lines of "Cookbook" books for e.g. Perl.

For example:

Statement of Problem:

	Iterate over a list of elements, skipping based on some predicate.

Solutions:

	a) blahblah


Well, for this simple problem we got 3 or 4 different idioms.  Each can
have a section.  Since it's a wiki we might get some interesting stuff
on pros and cons of different approaches.  Not to mention comparison
with other languages.

I find there's lots of useful info on the wiki, but sometimes its hard
to find what I need.  Indeed, it took me longer than it should have to
track down "loadstring"; I knew I had seen it, but couldn't remember the
name.  So it would be (maybe) more useful to have pages organized by
Problem Statements.  For loadstring, I could see e.g.

	- Problem: Execute a dynamically built expression
	- Problem: Route execution based on user-supplied logic
etc.

The sample code page is nice, but it's organized by computational
concepts (lazy sort, etc), rather than practical problems.

-gregg