Re: Lua and composition

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Feb 28, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

2017-03-01 3:10 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:


Quick standard questionnaire, marks from 0 to 10, 5=neutral,

1. Clarity of proposal?
2. New idea?
3. Do opportunities for using it arise often?
4. Will it improve clarity of coding?
5. Efficiency?
6. Attractiveness of implementation?

My ratings:

10, 0 (the OP himself claimed to have proposed this before April 2016 [1]),
8, 10, 5, 2 (prefer the way suggested in [2]).

Cloud Wu has pointed out the start of the previous thread; my references
also come from there.

That time, only the three of us endorsed the idea. Maybe its time has
now come.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2016-04/msg00186.html
[2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2016-04/msg00184.html

I’m not sure of the clarity of “v.v:x.y:a.b:name(args)” .. my head spins when tings get that deeply nested. However, I do agree that a:b.c(args) does make sense, so +1 to that.

—Tim