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- Subject: Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 22:18:41 +0200
Op Do., 6 Sep. 2018 om 19:34 het Tom Sutcliffe <tomsci@me.com> geskryf:
> The only thing that I'd really get rid of is the implicit string/number conversions.
Well, it's already in Lua 5.3 as simple compiling with NOCVTS2N, and
in Lua 5.4 you don't need to recompile, just assign nil to the
offending string metamethods.
> Lua is pretty much the definition of everything I really need in a language, and nothing that I don't. Which is one of the reasons I like it :-)
Amen, brother.
