Re: Newbie questions regarding luasocket, tables

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> > Take a look at the code in tinyirc.lua. It defines a set
> > object that can be used with select() and allows for the
> > operations you want.
>
> Sure, you can do it with extra wrapper layers in Lua.  Is there some
> reason for not doing it directly in C?

Simplicity, I guess. The alternative would be to support
both. Since it seemed easy to do it in Lua, I didn't
implement it in C. Some time ago, the implementation of
socket.select was mostly in Lua. When I updated it to C, I
feel the need to change the interface.

Regards,
Diego.