Re: number, math, and metatable? [RANT]

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 04.05.2014 12:20 schröbte Thomas Jericke:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mike Nelson" <mikestar1313@gmail.com>
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Date: 04-05-2014 01:22
> Subject: Re: number, math, and metatable? [RANT]
>
>
> Tim, Tim,
>
> You just don't get it--Thomas is trying to turn Lua into Smalltalk, I've tried to turn Lua into Ruby (mostly off list, missed so many opportunities to pester the list!), other individuals have tried to turn Lua into Python, Lisp, Haskell, etc. I may have overlooked some examples.
>
> I don't want to turn Lua into anything, I haven't even made a "[proposal]" yet.

Besides, there already is Smalltalk in Lua[1] ...
(which is another example of someone using '@' in custom keywords).

> I don't even know Smalltalk BTW, but I have some bad news for you,
> local limited = input : min(1000) : max(100) is absolutely legal Lua code (consider input to be a table with functions min and max as fields).
> --
> Thomas

Philipp

  [1]: http://olua.sourceforge.net/