Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 22 March 2014 14:49, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

You still can use external libraries for that (e.g., struct and lpack).

We thought that this basic functionallity was a good trade-off beween
usefuleness and simplicity for the standard library. (Thanks to
Daurnimator for the suggestion.)

-- Roberto

Thanks for taking my suggestion on board!

I'm wondering if anyone has had time to re-implement struct or lpack in pure lua yet?

Ben Kelly's (a.k.a. ToxicFrog) vstruct might be an interesting place to start...

If not, I might have a go at it next weekend...