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On 1/5/2011 7:36 PM, Henning Diedrich wrote:

Forked over from Re: Project lead nominations for standard
libraries?

On 1/1/11 4:28 PM, KHMan wrote:

On 1/1/2011 11:03 PM, Henning Diedrich wrote:

[snip]
On 1/1/11 3:10 PM, steve donovan wrote:

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Henning Diedrich wrote:

So I plead with you, Roberto, for the soul of Lua, as Chris
called out, fix
# !

But it ain't broken, so why fix it? It works precisely as
specified.

[snip]

It's a problem when people pretend that a raw Lua table is the
particular data structure they have in mind


Lua gets pretty close to pretend one structure, the table, is all
you ever need, but then without a warning backs out of it with #,
isn't it?


An implementation. Easiest way to answer critics.


Ok, I implemented a 'tru count' operator (%) in the core to
demonstrate what I mean. It returns actual amount of elements in a
table, or an approximation of characters in a utf-8 char. That may
be a stupid idea to mix in, please disregard for now.
Since this was at least partly caused by my words in the above, I state here that I applaud your initiative. Please take that as a gesture of good intention. Having said that, I'll now exclude myself from the discussion -- I'll just read the posts... :-) Have fun. 

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