Re: [ANN] GSL Shell 2.0 beta1 release

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Mike

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Mike Pall wrote:
> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > > Well, what I've done is to reimplement the quadrature routine in pure
> > > Lua using the FFI interface.
> >
> > Small correction: if you use the FFI interface, clearly it is not "pure
> > Lua".
>
> Of course it's pure Lua -- the FFI interface is a library. Would
> you say that the use of LuaSocket or LPEG libraries makes an
> application no longer a pure Lua application? Even if the author
> only wrote Lua code himself and is just distributing a bundle of
> Lua files?
	I think yes.  Usually we apply the term "pure Lua" to applications
that do not require external C libraries.  Or am I wrong?

	Regards,
		Tomás