Re: Recommendations on my upcoming Lua presentation?

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Wednesday 02 February 2011 01:42:39 Dirk Laurie wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:18:34PM +0200, Steve Litt wrote:
> > At this point I'm not sold on coroutines being as important as the
> > preceding, and time considerations suggest not getting into Metatables.
> 
> Not only importance or time considerations, they're over the top.
> 
> I'd say that coroutines, userdata, metatables, weak tables and the fact
> that arrays with holes are possible but not really catered for, are
> topics way too advanced even for a second or third lecture, let alone
> a first.  It took me several weeks to get to grips with them, and in some
> cases the grip has already slipped again because I have no need of the
> feature in question.
> 
> Dirk

I agree Dirk. Also, they don't have enough "wow factor" to do them anyway. For 
instance, I'm *for sure* going to show them a C program calling a Lua 
function, because although that's an advanced topic, it's just sooooo kewl. 
Coroutines, not so much, and I don't even know what weak tables are :-)

Thanks

SteveT

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