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

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

2014-09-22 13:39 GMT+02:00 Udo Schroeter <udo.schroeter@gmail.com>:

> Being new to the Lua community and all, I'm wondering how common it is
> for people to run their own patched (or otherwise modded) runtimes.
> Because it seems to me that the Lua core lends itself to a wide
> variety of modifications - so if someone really needs a new language
> feature it's actually a lot more feasible to go ahead and implement it
> than it is with most other languages that come to mind.
>
> One person's bloat is another person's highly anticipated feature. But
> is it really that important to get changes into mainline Lua when it's
> relatively easy to just patch your copy?

Indeed. I've got a private copy of Lua that accepts UTF-8 sequences
as names, another that tries the input as APL first, and I'm sure there
are many other people with toys like that.