strict.lua... more information

[sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@...>]

G'day,

[This message is in reply to Dirk's response, but I receive the messages in
digest format, so I apologise that this will be seen as a new thread.]

Dirk Laurie wrote:
   > It is not in the typical tarball that you download from lua.org,
   > which does not have an /etc subdirectory.

Some digging around show that we're both right... There was an etc
subdirectory from at least 4.0.1 to 5.1.5, but which vanished by the time
5.2.4 was released.

Furthermore, where the etc/ subdirectory is found, strict.lua only appears
in the 5.1.5 release... and a search for "strict" yields nothing with any
other current tarball (or, at least since 4.0.1):

        $ tar tzvf lua-4.0.1.tar.gz | grep strict
        $ tar tzvf lua-5.0.3.tar.gz | grep strict
        $ tar tzvf lua-5.1.5.tar.gz | grep strict
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     928 2008-01-19 03:33 lua-5.1.5/etc/strict.lua
        $ tar tzvf lua-5.2.4.tar.gz | grep strict
        $ tar tzvf lua-5.3.4.tar.gz | grep strict

Just for fun, here's the contents of etc/ in the 5.0.3 tarball:

        $ tar tzvf lua-5.0.3.tar.gz | grep -i etc
        drwxr-xr-x lhf/tecgraf       0 2003-10-02 10:45 lua-5.0.3/etc/
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1016 2002-12-18 00:49 lua-5.0.3/etc/min.c
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1745 2003-04-08 04:30 lua-5.0.3/etc/README
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1112 2003-03-27 12:00 lua-5.0.3/etc/trace.c
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     810 2003-04-03 00:18 lua-5.0.3/etc/Makefile
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    4074 2002-09-28 02:13 lua-5.0.3/etc/compat.lua
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1312 2003-04-03 09:14 lua-5.0.3/etc/bin2c.c
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     276 2002-06-05 11:20 lua-5.0.3/etc/lua.magic
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     146 2003-03-19 12:29 lua-5.0.3/etc/doall.lua
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1078 2000-07-31 21:28 lua-5.0.3/etc/lua.ico
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1361 2000-08-02 04:47 lua-5.0.3/etc/lua.xpm
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    1512 2002-12-05 03:59 lua-5.0.3/etc/luser_tests.h
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf    2421 2003-03-29 07:04 lua-5.0.3/etc/saconfig.c
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     790 2003-03-27 12:50 lua-5.0.3/etc/noparser.c
        -rw-r--r-- lhf/tecgraf     790 2003-04-02 03:38 lua-5.0.3/etc/luser_number.h


   > Why must a 40-line script (7 lines of which is documentation
   > and 5 blank that has not needed maintenance changes in
   > almost eight years be a loaded module? You can simply include
   > it in your code with a comment acknowledging the source.

I suppose it's just my style, to keep things as modular as possible.  Another
possible reason is that different people have different coding styles, so a
change within a script could appear jarring.  And finally, it's easier to
track bugfixes/revisions when modularity is enforced, such that third-party
sources are clearly delineated.

cheers,

sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
programmer, Grouse Software