Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

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

On 2018-02-01 10:48 PM, Paige DePol wrote:
> Soni They/Them L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > local MOD_LUA = "B72AF792-1509-54D6-9B46-1EE59547AA2B"
> > local MOD_SC = "6CC24CA3-0D40-550D-9B0F-EF54C94C54C1"
> > local MOD_IDK = "13DC8997-46AB-54E2-9BC4-10C88CFAC5D4"
> >
> > local syslog   = require (MOD_SC .. ".syslog")
> > local fsys     = require (MOD_SC .. ".fsys")
> > local tty      = require (MOD_IDK .. ".tty")
> > local xdg      = require (MOD_IDK .. ".xdg")
> > local viewfunc = require (MOD_IDK .. ".luaview.viewfunc")
> > local viewtab  = require (MOD_IDK .. ".luaview.viewtab")
> > local debug    = require (MOD_LUA .. ".debug")
> > local table    = require (MOD_LUA .. ".table")
> > local string   = require (MOD_LUA .. ".string")
> > local os       = require (MOD_LUA .. ".os")
> The point of this conversation was less about the format of the module
> identifiers and more about how you were opposed to domain style identifiers
> because you don't like centralisation... regardless of the fact that the
> domain style identifiers can be used without the need to actually register
> them with anyone at all.
>
> You never really answered the question about what makes your idea for using
> UUIDs any better vs using any other arbitrary string, including strings that
> happen to look like domain names.
>
> Given that Lua itself converts "." to path separators I do wonder if the
> intent was to facilitate domain name style identifiers as well? Otherwise
> why replace "." and not any other character, like ":" or even "::"?

Or why not use slashes? :p

But no, it probably has to do with indexing syntax:

local x = require "a.b"

should be comparable to

local x = a.b

> ~Paige

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