Re: table library changes (was Re: table.new in 5.3?)

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/11/26 Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:42 AM, John Hind <john.hind@zen.co.uk> wrote:
>>> So it would be worth having multi-element insert and remove in a library,
>> but a Lua library please, not 'C'.  As they say (but do not do) at Yahoo, we
>> should "eat our own dog food"!
>>
>> Lua's claim to fame is embedding itself into another application with
>> functionality implemented in C exposed by the host. Implementing it in
>> C is no less dogfooding than implementing it in Lua.
>
> Those of us who work on Unix-like operating systems tend to
> forget that the availability of a high-quality C compiler almost
> routinely installed at no charge is not a basic human right.
> There are people in the rest of the world who actually download
> precompiled Lua interpreters instead of compiling it from source.
>
> So, while I personally just love compiling little C libraries for Lua,
> I have some sympathy for those that would prefer not to.
>

I was under the impression that we were discussing an addition to the
STANDARD library.

/s/ Adam