Re: __index and __newindex

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 22:12, Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:24:46PM +0200, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

>> Sadly, PiL is commercial, so it is much less available to the users.

> Moreover, PiL is an advanced text.  I found I had to start reading
> slowly, preferably with a Lua window open, as early as page 14.

> There is certainly a need for a good Lua tutorial, one that assumes
> the reader knows no C, Python, Java or Scheme, and has never heard of
> garbage collectors.

> There is nothing to prevent you, or anyone else, from writing it.
> If it is good enough, O'Reilly will snap it up.

Nothing aside of utter lack of time for a few months :-(

Please contribute to lua-cookbook:

https://github.com/lua-cookbook/lua-cookbook/
https://github.com/lua-cookbook/lua-cookbook/wiki
http://groups.google.com/group/lua-cookbook-authors

Alexander.