Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 1 August 2018 at 21:18, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>> >> Meta tables are indeed another problematic feature from optimization
>> >> point of view.
>> >
>> >   You *really* don't use C-based modules at all, do you?  Because without
>> > metatables, userdata becomes rather useless.
>>
>> Apologies I don't mean to argue. But maybe you are thinking of meta methods?
>
>   Yes, which require metatables to store.

Sorry you didn't get my point at all. I was specifically talking about
using standard Lua tables as an implementation approach - its nothing
to do with the functional goal .

Regards