Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> writes:
> When discussing language design, performance is always present. But
> we do not think that, in a scripting language, such as Lua, we should
> consider a change in an API just to avoid an extra conditional or a jump
> misprediction. For LuaJIT, I am sure it will be able to eliminate
> these extra tests in most cases.

A single shift operator is _also_ more confusing from a readability
point of view, and that is important, even for a scripting language.

Many lisps use a single shift operator like that, and having used it
there, I've convinced it is a mistake -- it makes typical code that uses
it harder to understand.

-Miles

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