Re: Proposal: Proposals are the wrong approach [prose and long]

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 04.05.2014 00:09 schröbte Coroutines:
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> At that time it felt like what I wanted to accomplish wasn't a valid
> solution,

And it wasn't at that time. The ability to use arbitrary uservalue 
values will (most likely) come with Lua 5.3.

> as it could be accomplished "these other ways..." which was
> pretty discouraging.

Some (most?) people who propose a change to Lua have an actual problem 
they would like solved, and a new feature can only solve it in future 
Lua versions (if accepted at all), so suggestions how one can tackle the 
problem in current Lua versions might be appreciated.

>   And I'm still right that you should avoid
> segfaulting in libraries :P  I always typo setuservalue()*....
>
> Anyway, I'm pretty sure it was the list members.  I flipped a coin.

Philipp