Re: [On-topic] Lua goes its own way [ Was: Off-topic received English rant

[Vaughan McAlley <vaughan@...>]

On 15 March 2016 at 16:34, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-03-14 23:00 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com>:
>
>> Well, the primary intent of the match table was to provide a more
>> familiar interface for people more used to Python re matching
>
> Of all the motivations adduced for changing Lua, saying that
> Python/Ruby/Perl/Scheme/JSON/Julia/Go etc does it that way
> tends to be the one that impresses me least, even though I have
> been guilty of it myself (to my everlasting and well-archived shame).
>

Whenever I use Scheme, I wish it would work more like Lua, mainly when
I want to give default values to variables.