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

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-09-22 8:20 GMT+02:00 Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
>> Actually, the main point of my post was not to provide a Bourbakian
>> definition of "bloat" but to say that supporting ideas that Roberto has
>> already indicated he is considering is may well be a productive way
>> of getting new features into Lua.
>
> This is bloat: a recipe to get new features into Lua, regardless what
> you think about them :-)

Let me just stick then with the one feature that I have missed from
the first dat I used Lua, which was almost four years ago.

   Any reasonable way of providing an inverse operation to
   string.format will be fine.

Doesn't need to be all of "struct".