Re: Any plans regarding static typing in core Lua?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Xavier Wang once stated:
> 2016-03-08 14:41 GMT+08:00 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Karel Tuma <kat@lua.cz> wrote:
> >> Such a project is simply better served as a separate recompiler targeting Lua.
> >> It could easily surpass current Lua codebase in line count if you're wishing
> >> for something robust enough to allow for large scale application development.
> >
> > Exactly. This is why TypeScript exists and why it's implemented as a
> > recompiler and not part of the EcmaScript standardization.
> >
> > (Not only for type-safety and discoverability, but for general ease of
> > browsing and navigation)
> >
> > I suspect one could get pretty far with type annotations as part of
> > the _documentation_ of an interface.
> >
> 
> But Lua lacks #line program makes compiles to Lua difficult to debug :(

  +1

  I was working on a hacking project recently where this could have been a
big help (compiling a domain specific language into Lua where arbitrary Lua
code can be included).  I "solved" this issue by including a number of blank
lines when compiling the Lua code (lua loadstring()) to return meaningful
line numbers.

  -spc