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Am 30.09.2010, 01:01 Uhr, schrieb Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@bitgems.com>:
On 9/29/2010 4:43 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tim Mensch<tim-lua-l@bitgems.com> wrote:The response of "get used to it" (AKA RTFM) is a classic apologist response for a bad UIthe answer (mine, at least) is not "get used to it", it's "write better libraries". the choice between . and : should be evident from the semantic of the function.The semantics are only evident to the expert. Is Lua intended to be designed to exclude people who aren't experts?
Sure, you cannot do anything without being an expert. There is no need to expose the whole language to your clients if you think they cannot handle it. Lua is best suited to build application specific little languages on top of it. Peter