Re: help to (slightly) modify Lua interpreter

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Francesco Abbate:
> > 2009/11/5 Jerome Vuarand:
> > > If you don't mind modifying Lua itself, why can't you use Metalua ?
> > > What's the difference between a patched Lua and Metalua ?
> > Well, I could use Metalua, this is something that I will take into
> > consideration, but using it will add a significant layer of complexity
> > to my software. In fact, metalua allows you to modify Lua as your need
> > even at runtime but this is not really needed in my case since I want
> > a simple modification of Lua to be used over and over, always the
> > same. So, I think that a change in Lua will be justified, the only
> > problem could be the technical difficulty of implementing this change.
> > In addition I think that the Lua code base is more mature and stable
> > than Metalua.
>
> The point was that Lua is not meant to be modified (at least not more
> than any open source project) beyond the numerous adjustment you can
> do in luaconf.h. <snip>

Ha ha ha, now I have coffee on my keyboard... :-)

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia