Re: Token filters and simplification

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

I did.  And started thinking something else, thinking oh boy the  
Brazilians will reduce soooo much.. ;)

- object syntax
- anything marked "syntax sugar" in the reference ;)

But actually, I don't think the telescope should be held that way.   
Reason is, token filtering will always add onto the loading speed,  
even if the modified features weren't even used by the script. That  
is bad, and Lua authors value loading speed highly, which is great.

So in my opinion, the benefits of a smaller core would be  
overshadowed, and smallness is not an end goal per se.

In fact, I would expect to-be-famous token features to get adopted  
into the language, some day, once the use and syntax of them has  
stabilized (and more than 50% of Lua users are indeed using such  
tokenizers). Maybe, that day will come?

-asko


Gavin Wraith kirjoitti 9.11.2006 kello 16.50:

> Apologies if this email is short on detail. Token
> filters are being seen as a way of modifying Lua's
> syntax without interfering with the Lua core. Has
> anybody thought about looking at them through the
> other end of the telescope? That is to say, what
> elements of standard Lua can be replaced by a
> token-filter built on top of an even smaller core?
>
> --
> Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
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