Re: A proposal for the confusing pseudo table ≈ array concept
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- Subject: Re: A proposal for the confusing pseudo table ≈ array concept
- From: KHMan <keinhong@...>
- Date: 2018年1月19日 23:02:05 +0800
On 1/19/2018 10:45 PM, Elias Hogstvedt wrote:
Can you elaborate regardless? It introduces 1 more type, removes
the vararg type and some functions that deals with var args. The
end result are less lua functions and fewer exceptions to remember.
Who uses @ as vararg? Who uses ... as vararg?
Why hasn't Perl 6 taken the world by storm?
How many coders have all of C++ at the tip of their fingers?
Cognitive loads.
[snip]
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:50 PM, KHMan wrote:
On 1/19/2018 6:26 PM, Elias Hogstvedt wrote:
Lua was my first language and the language I've been using
the most for 10~ years. I want to point this out becuase I
don't want to be the guy who's coming from X language that
want changes in Lua because it's different from his
favorite language. I'm not really expecting any change but
it's fun to think about language design and I'm looking
for feedback.
[snip snip snip]
I believe this would simplify and make the language easier
to understand.
'Simplify'.
Really?
(That's all I'm going to say, ha ha. :-p I'll leave it to
others to argue it out.)
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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia