Re: Using Lua 5.3 in an upcoming project

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-11-11 3:26 GMT+02:00 Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>:
>
>> So, I'm writing this partially as a way of saying that I am so
>> confident in Lua's development that I'm prepared to fully support Lua
>> 5.3 in my app, and partially to say thanks to the PUC-Rio team for
>> writing Lua, and for everyone else who has contributed!
>
> My only criticism of Lua 5.3 beta is that the manual refers coyly to
> "an external library" for extra mathematical functions without
> suggesting any, despite the fact that LHF's `mathx` library is already
> available for 5.3. There should be added "such as `mathx`" with
> a URL.

I personally don't like the idea of the manual suggesting third party
tools, even tools maintained by one of the Lua authors. It's a
slippery slope that leads to the bloat only a Python fanatic would
appreciate. ;)

-- 
Patrick Donnelly