Re: Documenting Lua gotchas for newbies.

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Pierre-Yves Gérardy wrote:
> Following the floating point discussion, I tried to look for a 
> compilation of the various gotchas Lua beginners encounter, but I 
> couldn't find one, so I decided to compile one...
>
> Right now, I can think of two of them:
>
> - Floating point inaccuracies. A simplified version of Patrick Rapin's 
> "math.compare (x,y,delta)" [1] could be proposed as a workaround.
> - The fact that you have to declare locals before using them.
>
>
> Are there other potential traps? On what did you stumble while learning 
> the language?
>
> Kind regards,
> -- Pierre-Yves
>
> 1. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/71397

Please forgive me if I give the impression to push people, it's not my 
intent, but IMHO it could be worth consider a form of coordination 
(merging?) of different FAQs, like that excellent unofficial FAQ by 
Steve Donovan:

http://batbytes.com/luafaq

Best Regards,

--
Lorenzo