Re: [ANN] my Lua tools

[Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Miles Bader
Date: 3/1/2013 5:38 PM
> Joshua Jensen <josh.jjensen@gmail.com> writes:
> > I moved to Roberto's struct library.  It is far better documented than
> > lpack, but I haven't found it as powerful.
> What are the power differences you found?
I guess that at the time of the switch, I found myself changing lots of 
constructs in my format strings related to these:

#define    OP_BSTRING    'p'        /* string preceded by length byte */
#define    OP_WSTRING    'P'        /* string preceded by length word */
#define    OP_SSTRING    'a'        /* string preceded by length size_t */

I can't find any other difference that I can recall mattered to me at 
the time.

I started with Luiz's.  In fact, I embedded it into LuaPlus and gave it 
wide character string support.  When Roberto's struct library came out, 
I thought that one was the one to use.  Then Luiz offered an update, and 
I was confused, but I stayed with Roberto's.

In any case, documentation is critical to any project, and 'struct' is 
the best documented of the two.

-Josh