Re: CMake and Lua

[Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@...>]

On 14 Feb 2008, at 22:33, Brandon Van Every wrote:

> Bill said that when CMake first started, they had abundant TCL
> experience and knew they didn't want that.

Interesting.

> I do find 1 thing genuinely un-likeable about Lua syntax with respect
> to build systems.  Strings would require quotes.  That's a big waste
> of time when you're writing strings all the live long day.

Ah, back to Tcl, eh?

> Similarly, ${table} instead of unpack(table).

Python uses *table, i.e. * as unary operator - might fit Lua as well.

-jcw