Re: The "Environment Stack" (+ lexically scoped string metatables)

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2017-11-29 11:25 AM, Paige DePol wrote:
> Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cratera is meant to be a tiny patchset (currently ~60 lines) for a single
> > feature: traits. This feature requires many more lines of code. Not to
> > mention Cratera is not meant to be SELua. :)
>   
> Ahh, okay, I thought you were working on a larger fork, sorry for any
> misunderstanding. Though, I think my point still stands in relation
> to making proposals, demonstrating their viability is still a good idea!
>
> What is "SELua"?

It stands for "Security Enhanced Lua".

> > > Also, in your original post you mentioned something about metatable
> > > handling being changed. What reference did you have for that, changed
> > > how?
> > I was told on IRC that the Lua team wants lexically scoped metatables. My
> > proposal describes a relatively simple mechanism for implementing them.
> Why would you want a metatable to change when the scope changes?

Modules, mostly.

`"%s %s" % {"hello", "world!"}` without affecting other modules/the main 
program.

> ~Paige

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