Re: Arrays in Lua, JavaScript and PHP

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Mark Edgar wrote:
> My serious suggestion would be to simply use Lua.  Add Lua as a new
> scripting interface to AutoHotkey, and deprecate the current
> language/syntax.  It would be a big win for AutoHotkey.

:-) I already suggested that several times, of course!
But author is attached to his language, its peculiarities that seems to 
appeal to (non-programmer) users by the simplicity of the syntax (which 
look odd to programmers): special syntax for hotkeys, hotstrings, 
remapping, commands with string parameters without quotes, liberal use 
of goto and gosub, and so on...
Note that lot of the above might be doable with token filters... which, 
BTW, could be a nightmare for syntax highlighting editors! ;-)

Another problem I see: author knows well his language, the peculiarities 
of the syntax, and so on. If adopting a foreign language, simple on 
surface, complex when digging, he would loose mastery of the program as 
a whole: it becomes hard to tell if a given bug is really a bug of Lua, 
a problem of implementation, or a bad use of the language, for example.

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