Re: ClojureScript/Lua

[Eike Decker <zet23t@...>]

Quoting from the site
"The first thing i had to overcome in porting the Javascript backend
to Lua, is that in Lua, not everything is an object. "

I have to object. Maybe I should do a blog post on how functions CAN
have attributes IF you are crazy enough to want it. I don't think it
should be done though.

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-- setting the metatable of one function affects all functions...
debug.setmetatable(function()end,{__index = function (f,k) return "foo" end})

print(print.bar) -- prints "foo"
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With some more fantasy and time, one can do just anything with
function as it is in JavaScript. It's simply not obvious.

Cheers,
Eike


2012/8/8 Henk Boom <henk@henk.ca>:
> I found this via r/Lua. ClojureScript/Lua is a version of the
> ClojureScript compiler that targets Lua.
>
> http://raphamiard.posterous.com/clojurescriptlua-lives
>
> I used Clojure for a little while a few years ago, it's a very
> interesting Lisp/Scheme-like language.
>
> Someone posted about it here when the project started a few months
> ago, but it looks like there's been a release. Unfortunately the
> compiler is still JVM-hosted, though, and the performance is described
> in that post as "Not very good". Still, I can't wait to see where this
> goes!
>
>     henk
>