Re: 10 LOC program is too complex to be compiled

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

2015-04-27 15:54 GMT+02:00 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:

> My code is a simplified version (thus all variables have the same name) of
> real life automatically generated script, which has about 160 local vars and
> some number of big matrices containing numeric data.
> According to language manual, such code is completely legal.
> If some strange complexity limitations are exist in vanilla Lua implementation,
> they must be clearly declared in the manual.

Implementation-dependent quirks are not declared in the manual.

> Is Lua really suitable only for short human-written code?

No, it is also suitable for well-designed long machine-written code.