Re: [PATCH] Loop Overflow Bug Fix

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> 
> On 2017-11-21 08:11 AM, Peter Billam wrote:
> >>2017-11-20 22:36 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> >>>Why not just get rid of for loops?
> 
> >One of my more reliable rules-of-thumb:
> >  Never trust a sentence with 'just' in it.
> >
> >Eg:
> >  Why don't they just make some more ozone and pump it up there ?
> >Many other examples...  :-)
> >
> As someone who hasn't actually used any Lisp yet (whether you believe 
> that is another matter), what's wrong with turning Lua into a new form 
> of Lisp? It even starts with an L!

>From http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2015-04/msg00237.html (in reply to
you, over two years ago):

>   -spc (Have you tried programming in Lisp? [1])
> 
> [1]     From all the posts you make here, I get the impression you would do
>         far better programming in Lisp than in Lua (or any other non-Lisp
>         language).  Every crazy thing you want to do is possible in Lisp.
> 
>         But that's just my impression.

  -spc (So, why haven't you tried Lisp yet?  Seriously ... )