RE: [Proposal] Simplified Lua Reference

["colevalleygirl@..." <Colevalleygirl@...>]

" Stripping the reference manual down to the bare minimum, with no BNF requirements, would help those ppl."

And make life harder for experienced programmers who need the exactitude of the BNF notation.

Sounds like you're asking for a third set of documentation, for people who can't programme and can't follow tutorials.  But reducing the precision of the Lua Reference manual is not the way to go.


-----Original Message-----
From: Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com> 
Sent: 21 September 2020 14:03
To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Simplified Lua Reference



On 2020-09-21 9:48 a.m., Marcus Mason wrote:
> I do not mean this to sound rude in any way but the reference manual 
> is for people who understand programming. A lot of the content is very 
> technical and this is why there are other resources such as 
> Programming in Lua available for people who want to learn the 
> language. Perhaps a modernization of some of lua's resources like the 
> wiki could help ease newer people into understanding / learning the 
> syntax more easily.

Programming in Lua is written for ppl who can follow tutorials, it doesn't work for a whole bunch of other ppl.

Stripping the reference manual down to the bare minimum, with no BNF requirements, would help those ppl.