Re: [ANN] LGSL 0.1 released

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Lesley De Cruz <lesley.decruz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 January 2016 at 17:12, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
>>
>> How can you say it's "a numerical library for Lua" when effectively this
>> is for LuaJIT?
>>
>> LuaJIT ~= Lua
>>
>> It should be named LJGSL, not LGSL, imo.
>>
>> </rant>
>
>
> It's written in/for Lua, it just uses a library that is currently only
> available for LuaJIT.
> Most of it should work fine in Lua (albeit not as fast) when/if the FFI
> library for Lua [1] supports the necessary features.
>
> Best regards,
> Lesley
>
> [1] https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi

+1

For my, Lua in the first place is what can be parsed by Lua 5.1-5.3,
not what can be executed by some specific Lua implementation /
library. I wish Lua syntax never changed...

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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev