Re: toLua++ question

[Christian Tellefsen <christian.tellefsen@...>]

I looked at some Lua wrappers a while back.

After a bit of evaluation, I decided to add our own wrappers and added 
push_xxx, to_xxx and check_xxx functions that know about our classes / 
vectors / enumerations and so on, in the same style as the normal Lua C 
interface.

Advantages:
- Everything looks like 'normal' Lua bindings. No need to learn two 
different style interfaces for doing bindings.
- Low complexity.
- Shallow call stacks, easy to debug.
- Quick compilation, works well with edit & continue, since pretty much 
any bindings change is local to one .cpp file.
- Easy to do bindings that are not simply wrapping methods and 
properties, like setting properties on a table reading and writing data 
in a database.
- Small.
- Fast.

Disadvantages:
- More verbose code.
- Harder to learn for C++ coders who don't know the Lua stack, and are 
more used to working with classes and templates.

I'm sure some other wrappers also have some of the advantages above, I 
haven't looked at everything in depth, and it was some time ago. I'm 
pretty happy with how it turned out, though.

Cheers,
Christian Tellefsen