Re: A rant about Lua

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

David Manura wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Benjamin Tolputt wrote:
> > On 12/31/08, Lee Hickey wrote:
> > > http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/post/2008/12/30/Rants-about-Lua
> > I don't understand why the '#' syntax does not use the __len metamethod
>
> [snip]
>
> > From the blog:
> > The problem is that standard functions like table.insert or
> > table.remove do raw accesses to the table.
>
> Therefore, I question why table.* functions should honor metamethods.
> If you want your ADT to have an "insert" operation, you could
> implement it as a dynamically bound method:
> [snip]

It looks like the blogger has failed to do a mental/cognitive 
switch. If he likes OO-across-the-board so much, there's something 
called Ruby that might agree with his fine tastes. I hear it's 
very fast too... ;-) Heh. Selamat Tahun Baru [Malay] to everyone too.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia