Re: [ANN] luatexts 0.1

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 20:57, Ed <spied@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 04/03/11 07:13, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

>> Announcing luatexts version 0.1 release (under MIT license).

>> https://github.com/agladysh/luatexts

> From this page:
>> Why not...
>>
>>    * XML — large and unwieldy
>>    * JSON — not Lua-aware (can't encode table-as-key and other
>> fancy values)

> Does anyone uses "table-as-key"?

Hurray, first feedback! :-)

Of course table-as-key is generally useful — to represent sets and
maps where key is some object.

But, that being said, I'm not sure if it is really practical in
luatexts datagrams, which you will most likely use to transfer (or
store) data, not objects...

Alexander.