Re: STL like algorithms for Lua

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* steve donovan:

> The Penlight seq library has some STL-like functions:
>
> http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight/api/modules/pl.seq.html
>
> But classic STL is built around the idea of generalized C++ pointers,
> which is not so very applicable to Lua.

You should probably look at a range-based reimplementation of the
containers and algorithms framework.  Andrei Alexandrescu has written
about this, and there's an implementation for the language D.