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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 03:55 PM, Petite Abeille wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Jorge <xxopxe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't want to explicitly say when I want to persist, nor where, nor
>>> serialize everything each time. I want to know that whatever I put in that
>>> table, will be there when I start my application again. Having that I don't
>>> need no filesystem.
>>>
>>> I have to deal with files and serialization only because they are the
>>> only thing the OS under Lua understands. Me writing Lua applications, want
>>> to deal only with what Lua understands: tables. Being forced to think in
>>> file descriptors and serial data is a forced exit from the virtuality of the
>>> Lua environment.
>>
>>
>> One word: lunacy! :P
>
>
>
> Sadly, it seems that name is already taken... Now, i'll wait a good name
> occurs to me, and THEN you will see! :D
>
>

Punning off of the equivalent functionality in Java ("hibernate"),
perhaps "naptime"?

/s/ Adam