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- Subject: Lua Questions and Thoughts
- From: Ken Rawlings <krawling@...>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:57:36 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
Just wondering, what is the current status of Unicode strings with Lua?
I know it was being considered at one point last year, but haven't seen
much talk about it in a while.
Regarding the BCD/Double/Int issue that comes up occasionally, perhaps
an optional Lua type system much like those implemented in some Lisp
compilers could help out -- numbers could default to being double's
unless specifically specified as integers. It seems like this could
probably be done without breaking existing code while providing a great
deal of benifit.
I agree in principal with the idea of keeping the core language as
small as possible, however I can see where people are coming from as
far as wanting things like a case statement. Perhaps we could look into
developing a macro system(ala Scheme hygenic macros) for Lua that would
be powerful enough to do transformations like this while keeping the
core Lua small.
Finally, how do people do error handling with complicated applications
in Lua? Correct me if i'm wrong, but error() stops the interpreter,
which is often not what you want. Is there a way to implement some sort
of simplified exception handling, perhaps with tag methods?
Thanks,
_Ken Rawlings
> On Sat 18 Mar, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> We, the Lua team, have periodic meetings in which we mostly discuss what
> to *remove* from Lua (without breaking anything) rather than what to add!
> --lhf