Re: Lua as Configuration Conditional Statement inside table definition

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 11/10/2010 7:42 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Then the anonymous function in the table constructor simply becomes
> > cond('BIDIRECTIONAL_SUPPORTED',{3,"BiDirectional"})
> >
> > The 'quoting' of the condition is important, if you want this to work
> > at _run-time_.  Otherwise, the condition variable is evaluated at
> > compile-time.
>
> What?

If quoting and non-quoting are both valid and have different 
behaviours, then it is a format fail.

I would rather a configuration format be designed for human 
beings. If it can be done in straight Lua, then great, if not, 
then we should make configuration files for human beings rather 
than for computers.

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