Re: Bloat or no bloat? (Was: [Feature request])

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
> On 21 September 2014 11:27, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Bloat" is something that adds to the length of the manual without
>> adding to what Lua can already do. For example, if eventually in
>> Lua 5.3 "for i in ipairs(tbl)" turns out to be exactly equivalent to
>> "for i=1,#tbl" then 'ipairs' will be bloat.
>
> I strongly disagree with your definition of "bloat". By your
> definition, 'for' and 'while' are bloat because we have 'goto'.
>
> And no, I don't wish to incite a discussion on what would be a better
> definition because it is, in the end, subjective.
>
> -- Hisham
>

I agree. This definition of "bloat" is simply the inverse of
"minimalist." I think that there's a false dilemma in play here.

/s/ Adam