Enrico Tassi wrote:
[...]
The only thing I'd like to see is some sort of cooperation in the
production of libraries. AFAIK there are multiple implementation
of the
same libraries (we have 3 different curl bindings for example) and
some really important libraries (like posix) seem not to be well
maintained. This coordination effort has to be made by the
community, if
we failed so far it not a lua fault.
There's currently no real distinction being made between Lua the
language and Lua the platform. As the maintainers are only really
concerned with the former, the latter hasn't seen much work, as
you'd expect... there are projects like LuaX or LuaBinaries, but
they've never achieved critical mass.
Another thing that's worth considering is that due to the nature of
Lua, standard distributions are of limited worth. The thing is that
as soon as you start patching the language, precompiled addons
become worthless. I've just added the LNUM patch to WordGrinder, in
an attempt to improve performance. This means that I can no longer
use Debian's standard Lua, or Debian's standard LuaFileSystem
package, and have to start distributing, compiling and maintaining
my own copies of the language. (The binary size has shot up from
16kB to a staggeringly huge 130kB. How will we ever cope?)
[...]
- bitwise operators (this is a core feature, not a library
feature: just
try to imagine using arithmetic operators as a library)
What you may want is the possibility of defining a new syntax that
interprets a | b and bit.or(a,b)... metalua is there. All non
necessary
stuff should stay away from the core, that is a key point of lua I
think.
Actually, there's a patch that does this:
http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/power_patches/5.1/
newluaoperators.patch
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David Given
dg@cowlark.com
