Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great John Hind once stated:
> Definitely 'ipairs' and the metamethod on 'pairs'. The former is usually 
> better done using numeric 'for' and can be trivially implemented in Lua 
> if wanted. The latter can be done by replacing 'pairs' or by writing 
> another iterator with a name reflecting what it does.

  And there goes iterating over userdata ...

> Generally I'd remove everything from the standard libraries that does 
> not justify implementation in 'C' either because it cannot be done in 
> Lua or because serious performance gains can be had. Then I'd have 
> standard Lua implementations for the rest.

  Okay, do you have any suggestions then?  Because I can't think of much in
the standard libraries that can be removed ...

  -spc