Re: map/grep in Lua: Shedding My Functional Perlisms

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:

> One thing I still wonder about is serialization. Why doesn't Lua have it 
> at the library level since the need is so common? Sure you can code your 
> own, but that's duplicated effort.

I think it might because each developer might want different
kinds of serialization, depending on the app and the data.

The most common types of serialization can be lifted from existing
code, and the more complex ones would have to be custom written
anyways.

Cheers, Ralph