Re: Lua libraries workshop scheduled for Feb 19

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 04:37  AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 1. Is it possible to expose more of Lua's internals as libraries?
>
> In particular, it'd be really nice to be able to get at the internals of
> the compilation process, e.g. to be able to manipulate code as data
> (rather than resorting to string mangling as at present). Similarly, see
> my past proposals on the list about being able to plug in a different
> regexp engine or (more controversially) garbage collector.

I'd love to see this.

Also, I think the most important standard library needed is a small one 
for dealing with file system directories.(getting lists of/attributes of 
files, etc).

Steve