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

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 12/7/2010 8:12 PM, Alex Queiroz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, KHMan wrote:
> > I'm sure it may sound okay in theory, like so many things. Lisp is great
> > with their culture, like keeping the assembly language mnemonics CAR and CDR
> > like a couple of sacred cows.
>
>       Which, like everything else, has an explanation. They compose
> better. But if you want FIRST and REST, they exist too...

Point taken. Good bait though... :-p

Maybe I'll frame it in another way. Suppose I am not a fluent 
programmer but want to tweak some game code to explore some new 
ideas -- then I would prefer the code's intentions to be 
bleedingly obvious. I like "bleedingly obvious"...

I think it's wonderful that we want to stick some of the 
incomparable greatness of Lisp into Lua now.

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