Talk:Lua (programming language)

Can embedding Lisp -like code?
e.g.: quote(string)                    -> "string" quote(quote(expr))               -> "quote(expr)" quote(quasiquote(expr))          -> "quasiquote(expr)" quote(quasiquote(unquote(expr))) -> "quasiquote(unquote(expr))" quote(unquote(expr))             -> "unquote(expr)" quasiquote(string)               -> "string" quasiquote(quote(expr))          -> "quote(expr)" quasiquote(quasiquote(expr))     -> "quasiquote(expr)" quasiquote(unquote(expr))        -> expr

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p.s.
−3, –3, and -3 are three different things; to wit a minus, an endash, and a hyphen. Dis sayin'... --Brogo13 (talk) 20:15, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I explained the problem, which is unrelated to this article, at my talk. Johnuniq (talk) 23:12, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The problem, according to your edit summary, was my script—I have none. I simply found some hyphens masquerading as dashes and some where minus signs would make sense e.g. west longtitudes and south latitudes. (Why they work but minuses don't is still beyond me.) --Brogo13 (talk) 03:12, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Template parameters expect numbers to be numbers, for example 12.3 or -12.3 (that's a hyphen which is the universal symbol for a negative number in programming languages). Some code in MediaWiki accepts a minus sign as equivalent to negative but modules (using Lua) do not, not unless the module takes extra steps to convert minus signs to hyphens before interpreting the numbers. Minus signs are typographic symbols for humans. Johnuniq (talk) 03:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Object oriented programming?
In 'metatables', we learn that __index is a function that is called __index(self, key) whenever a key is not found.

But in 'object oriented programming', __index is set to Vector itself.

Does this mean that a table *is* a self function that performs lookup? That x['foo'] is the same as x(x, 'foo') ?

203.13.3.90 (talk) 00:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No it isn't. You can convince yourself of that by using https://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo and pasting the following:
 * The first print returns 123 as expected, the second returns an error. A table clearly performs a lookup, but is not a function in the Lua sense. For more information on datatypes, see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2 --RexxS (talk) 19:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The first print returns 123 as expected, the second returns an error. A table clearly performs a lookup, but is not a function in the Lua sense. For more information on datatypes, see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2 --RexxS (talk) 19:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The first print returns 123 as expected, the second returns an error. A table clearly performs a lookup, but is not a function in the Lua sense. For more information on datatypes, see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2 --RexxS (talk) 19:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)