Re: The meaning of 'sugar' [Forked from Re: Why do we have ipairs?]

[Ross Bencina <rossb-lists@...>]

On 13/06/2014 4:13 PM, Thomas Jericke wrote:
> > I'll leave it to others to determine whether using string literals in
> > an interface is ever good style.
> >
> > Ross.
> Show me a Lua API that doesn't use string literals.
>
> local myLib = require "MyLib" -- Oops a string literal
> myLib.myFunction()
> -- which is syntactic sugar for:
> myLib["myFunction"]() -- Oops, another one.
>
> So without sting literals, you cannot use globals, require, access table
> elements of type string.

You're intentionally twisting my words.

It's one thing to be able to use a string literal, quite enough to 
require its use in an interface.

We're not talking about module or function names here, we're talking 
about constants that are usually integers.

Ross.