On Thursday 05 January 2006 16:46, Lisa Parratt wrote: [...] > Could a coordinated project to create a standard library, seperate from > the main Lua distribution, that dumps/undumps in a universal format, be > useful? Could this universal format be, in fact, Lua source code? That way, the undump code would automatically exist in every Lua interpreter, and the dump code would take a compiled Lua chunk and turn it into a Lua string that would produce the same byte-code when compiled. (But not necessarily the same source code that you started out with.) Plain text is, after all, the ultimate portable file format... -- +- David Given --McQ-+ "I've just had a terrible thought --- what if all | dg@cowlark.com | Earthlike planets other than our own *do* look like | (dg@tao-group.com) | Welsh quarries?" --- Coyu, on rasfw, while +- www.cowlark.com --+ discussing _Blakes 7_
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