Re: XML Support for Penlight?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Alex Bradbury <asb@asbradbury.org> wrote:
> I'm a little unsure about your recent attempts to cut-down on
> inter-module dependencies ...  isn't it only logical that the more
> complex parts of Penlight will have dependencies on other Penlight
> modules?

This is true, but I was going a little mad, pretending that I was
writing Python and essentially pulling in thousands of lines of code
to do relatively simple things. The choice to use Lua like Python may
well be a sensible application choice, but I'd like to make it
optional.

> you think about offering something like ilua (as a library) in
> Penlight?

The idea is tempting, I grant you - especially since we have all the
pretty printing available.

steve d.