Re: Best Practices for Lua -> "Lua+"?

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

My apologies if it appeared that a sensible person like you would want
such things. It is my compulsive refactoring gene kicking in again.

steve d.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:
> "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
>  > Yes, it isn't that difficult to make Lua look like another language,
>  > but the difficulty comes when people expect the same semantics ;)
>  > Easy to 'skin' Lua to look like JavaScript, but boy, it will bite
>  > people who are expecting the same forgiving number-string
>  > autoconversions.
>
>  Just a side note, but please don't edit the quotes so that it looks like
>  I was advocating such awful changes... :-/
>
>  [Especially the bit about whitespace -- I think python is a horrid
>  language syntactically; the idea of making Lua look like it makes me
>  shudder....]
>
>  -Miles
>
>  --
>  Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
>  they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a
>  cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
>