Re: use of gettop to change functionality

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 12:56:21PM +0200, Daurnimator wrote:
> The most frequent use of gettop and isnone in C lua libraries to
> modify what a function does really disturbs me.
> foo(nil,nil,nil) should be the same as foo(nil,nil) and foo() etc
> It disturbs me even more that such bad behavior is present in the lua
> core libraries in the form of table.insert.
> 
> The fact that table.insert(t,v) performs very different behaviour to
> table.insert(t,k,nil) is a disturbing bite in the ass.
> 
> ==> What steps can we take to discourage the writing, and usage of
> libraries that do such evil?
> 
> Daurn.
> 
+1