Re: Features you would like to see

[Steve Heller <steve@...>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:05:55 -0500, Steve Heller
<steve@steveheller.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:06:32 -0600, "Patrick Donnelly"
><batrick.donnelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm curious what features people would like to see added to Lua.
>>Generally I'm content with the way things are. But there are some
>>things...
>
>Type declarations, including declarations for a (specific)
>user-defined type. This would have to be ptional, of course, but with
>a switch to make them required. 

Make that "optional", not "ptional". Although that might be an
excellent word if it existed!

>This is pretty much the only
>significant thing that a language like C++ has that Lua doesn't have
>(other than a modest difference in performance), and the lack of it
>makes large-scale programming in Lua much more difficult and
>uncertain.
>
>Steve

Steve