Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua
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- Subject: Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua
- From: Phil Leblanc <philanc@...>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:57:34 -0400
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> Are there features in Lua that could be removed to create a simpler language?
Thought experiment level 1:
-- Remove all special metamethods keys ("__add" and friends, including
__len), excluding __index, __newindex and __gc
Thought experiment level 2:
-- Remove metatables
i.e. less "object-oriented" things. Going more with plain functions,
tables of functions and closures.
Remember, this is NOT my wish list for a future Lua! :-) and I don't
know how much simpler it would make the language implementation