Re: Recommendations on my upcoming Lua presentation?

["J.Jørgen von Bargen" <jjvb.primus@...>]

Am 31.01.2011 19:57, schrieb Steve Litt:
> Hi all,
>
> On February 17, 2011 I'll be giving a Lua presentation at Linux Enthusiasts
> and Professionals (http://www.leap-cf.org). Like many of my presentations it
> will probably be a "Lifeboat and Speedboat" presentation, where the first part
> goes over the basics at a slow speed, and the second part is a fast dog and
> pony show of advanced features. All advice would be welcome (although of
> course in the end I'll be the one determining the content). It looks like I'll
> have approximately 1.75 hours for the presentation.
I did some inside-company presentation and the biggest wow-effect was to 
explane
"print is no runtimefunction. print is just a (global) variable holding 
a first class value, the function code.
 It's perfect legal to do print=nil or event print=1/3 (but then you 
can't "print" any more :-) "

I believe "function is a first class value" is one of the most important 
(and astonishing) concepts of lua and should not be missed in any 
presentation.

Regards