Re: Lua Cookbook

[beo wulf <beowulf@...>]

This cookbook is aimed at lua 5.2 right?

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 4. The naïve plan:
>> -- Define book format
>> -- Brainstorm a list of topics
>> -- Cull a list of topics to a list of articles
>> -- Assign volunteer authors
>> -- Formulate a submission, collaboration, editing process.
>> -- Write articles
>> -- ...
>> -- PROFIT
>
> I support this idea.
>
> As far I get it, a cookbook is some sort of of book an advanced Lua
> programmer will page through very quickly and put it back - "boring,
> know it all." But for some people like to approach things by reading
> something like this (other just open a console and hack away :-). I
> would compare it to the rather sucessfull, yellow "[X] for dummies"
> series. There might be some overlap to Robertos excellent "Programming
> in Lua" in book. Like Queues http://www.lua.org/pil/11.4.html would
> fit in the Cookbook very well. But as I see it, the approach would be
> different, it would not introduce the very basics of the language, but
> refer to Roberto for this, and it would organize things originating
> from a common problem. Wile Programming in Lua originates from
> Language features and what one can do with it.
>
> About a collaborative friendly format.
>
> Progit uses callibre, do not know that. I recently used asciidoc and
> considered it quite ok. One is in Ruby the other in Pyhton.
>
> Brainstorming topics, I suppose one could skim through the mailling
> list to find good topics:
> Reclling things out of my head
> * anonymous recursion
> * sandboxing
> * auto magic tables
> * getopt()-like solutions
> * chain(like?) lists - (any list operation where random insert/delete is cheap)
> * multidimensional arrays
> * building GUIs
> * slices (refer to penlight?)
> * handling XML
> * detecting loop-hanged scripts when calling from C
>
>