Re: Why Lua is not more popular

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

2013/9/17 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>

  Another thing I've found (by doing Lua bindings by hand) is that a
mechanical approach really doesn't make for good Lua bindings.  Such a
mechanial approach to syslog() would end up with:

        syslog(5,string.format("The foo is %s",status))

Or ...

        LOG_NOTICE = 5
        syslog(LOG_NOTICE,string.format("The foo is %s",status))

Or

        syslog("LOG_NOTICE",string.format("The foo is %s",status))

Doing it by hand, I did [1]:

        syslog('notice',"The foo is %s",status)

which is MUCH nicer (IMHO) than other syslog() interfaces for Lua I've seen.

  -spc

[1]     https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/blob/master/src/syslog.c

I'd go one step further and do: syslog.notice("The foo is %s", status)

which incidentally happens to be exactly the interface for a log library I wrote a while ago.

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