Re: Try Lua!

[Jim Whitehead II <jnwhiteh@...>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, steve
donovan<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jim Whitehead II<jnwhiteh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd seriously consider what your focus is actually meant to be.  Isn't
>> it better to explain to the reader what is going on and lead them
>> through steps to understand it, than to hide all those details from
>> them?  Lua is not Ruby, is not Python and hiding those details I can't
>> see being a good thing.
>
> It is still very useful to have a reasonably robust table dumper. Or
> do you force them to say 'for k,v in pairs(t) do print(k,v) end'?  A
> little help in the begining is worth a lot of purity.  Maybe make it
> explicit, even call it dump(), but don't exclude it.
>

I never once implied that it shouldn't be there, but it should not be
masking the default behavior of the language.  If you'd note, in
lua_bot it's called pp() for pretty print.  The name is terrible, but
it serves the same purpose.

- Jim