Re: mathlib

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2014-04-08 11:09 AM, "Andrew Starks" <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Christopher Berardi <cberardi32@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 8, 2014 10:31 AM, "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Your last statement frustrates me.  I could see "new syntax" being scary,
>> > > but another languages' semantics?  Are you kidding?  How is it another
>> > > language to essentially pull in references in batch from one table to
>> > > another?
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>> > It ain't crap, it's just how Lua resolves symbol references; either
>> > they are in the environment or they are locals.  'local import foo' is
>> > impossible with Lua semantics, because each new local slot has to be
>> > allocated at compile time, and we don't _know_ what foo contains.
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>> Maybe I'm missing something, but you I don't think you should need to the contents at compile time. You have the name of the local variable which should be enough. I'm certainly not advocating automatically creating a variable for each element of the loaded module.
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>> For example, this should be how it would work:
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>>     local import module1
>>     module1.func1()
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>> And not:
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>>     local import module1
>>     func1()
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> Can you guys move this to a new thread, please? 

Agreed, we seem to have at least three different discussions going on in this thread now.