Re: mathlib

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>]

On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Christopher Berardi <cberardi32@gmail.com> wrote:

For one example of expressiveness, and I know its been beaten to death before, would be akin to Python's import statement:
    import module1
    import module2 as m2
    import module3, module4
    from module5 import func1, func2
    ...

I have the 'from' part implemented with a small function for Steve's LuaMacro:

    https://github.com/gvvaughan/larch

A matching 'import' macro would be similarly easy, and along with one of the

package.loaders larch ships, works almost invisibly (except for being an order

of magnitude slower than plain require)...

Disclaimer: larch is still half baked, but I use it to mitigate the otherwise

huge block of 'local foo = module.foo' statements at the start of every

file throughout my Specl project with some success, and in that case

pre-expand all the macros in the installed files to avoid the slowdown

and dependency on LuaMacro.

Cheers,

-- 

Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe)