Re: scope, design patterns?

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Patrick

> My newest project will probably be under 1K lines of code and would work with 
> a poorly designed layout but I want to improve my habits. I do understand 
> PIL/modules/upvalues quite well now but I am wondering if there are different 
> strategies for managing much larger projects. I understand that lightroom is 
> over 100k lines of Lua and there are other large applications too. Are there 
> numerous design patterns out there to keep people from clobbering variables 
> and organizing this much code? Do people usually just divide their code up 
> into many modules?
	I do.  But I do not divide code into modules to achieve privacy,
but to improve reuse and ease maintenance.

> It seems that this is the main way privacy is achieved in 
> let's say Python. Lua is a different tool and I want to learn the best way to 
> use it irrespective of other languages.
>
> Would a book on Javascript design patterns help with Lua?
	I don't think so :-(

	Regards,
		Tomás