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

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> PS: One proposal of mine got through, in 5.3 userdata can be
>> associated with userdata through lua_setuservalue() -- eat that, lua-l
>> :P
>
> Sorry to disapoint you, but that proposal was certainly not "yours". It
> has been recurrently proposed in the list for several years (e.g., see
> [1], from 2008). (It was not implemented before because it has a small
> technical difficulty that nobody in the list cared to solve.)
>
> [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-03/msg00681.html
>
> -- Roberto
>

But... can't I patent it anyway :p  (j/k)

I actually did get so far as making a patch, but it literally only
worked half the time >.>