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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> It's one of those things that comes up and I have this thought. When I do,
> I'm never left thinking that there are a ton of ways to extend value types.
> I'm always left thinking, "any one of these ways would be fine and if there
> was just one, things could be much easier to parse."

Well, 'extended types' are concepts built on the lower-level Lua
mechanisms, and like 'class' implementations, there will always be
multiple ways of achieving that. It would be useful if we had a
virtual summit meeting and established some conventions, but it's hard
for cats to herd.