RE: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

["Paul Hudson" <phudson@...>]

Where's the metadata going to be put, and what's going to look at it?

If it's just going to be discarded (like the const suggestion) then I'm with
Lisa - it's just asking for trouble and (mis/ab)use. Use structured comments
instead and deal with it outside of Lua proper.

If it's not, then I'd rather not pay the space and time costs needed to
handle it. Lua's lean and mean now, and (IMNAAHO) should stay that way.

P.
-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br] On Behalf Of Timur Davidenko
Sent: 13 June 2006 15:31
To: Lua list
Subject: RE: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

I`ll second that,
Ability to add custom metadata (or some kind of attributes like in C#)
That can be later accessed from C api.
Somehow like this:

SomeTable = 
{
	<UIType=int,UIMinRange=0,UIMaxRange=100>
	a = 1,
	<UIType=int,UIMinRange=0,UIMaxRange=100>
	b = 2,
	<UIType=Object>
	objname = "test.obj",
}

- Timur

-----Original Message-----
From: King, Mike [mailto:MKing@klmicrowave.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:09 PM
To: Lua list
Subject: RE: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

>> No roadmap, published or otherwise. Do you have any special
requests??

Having the ability to add metadata to variables would be a nice
addition.  This would make it easier to do static analysis of lua
scripts.  

## return_type = number ##
function sin (a, b)
	...		
end

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