Re: Popularity contest
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- Subject: Re: Popularity contest
- From: Artur Galyamov <artur-pub@...>
- Date: 2011年9月27日 21:32:50 +0400
27.09.11, 14:36, "Dirk Laurie" <dpl@sun.ac.za>:
> > > local min, max, floor in math
> > >
> > > No new keywords there. I think it would be nice way to easily localize
> > > globals.
> > Yes, I like this way, too :)
>
> All that you really gain from that sort of syntax is that you do not
> need to type the names min, max, floor twice, since the support for e.g.
>
> from = require "from"
> local min, max, floor = from.math "min, max, floor"
>
> is easy to write directly in Lua. And if you want to use other names
> than the ones in the library, you lose.
Agree. But as someone said, simple things should be simple, complex
things should be possible. That's why I love Perl, but embed Lua :]