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Cheese, … dev1 dev230

Jan 20

Why set the control variable of this for loop to read-only in Lua5.5?

//wiki.c2.com/?CodeSmell > -- > http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, @mcepl@en.osm.town > GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 > > We are told

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Why set the control variable of this for loop to read-only in Lua5.5?

//wiki.c2.com/?CodeSmell > -- > http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, @mcepl@en.osm.town > GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 > > We are told

Jan 20

Patrick Kurth, … Lars Müller23

9/12/25

Implementation of named function parameters

tarantool/wiki/LuaJIT-Allocation-Sinking-Optimization On 11/09/2025 18:26, Rett Berg wrote: > > Nothing is changes in the generated bytecode (except possibly with >

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Implementation of named function parameters

tarantool/wiki/LuaJIT-Allocation-Sinking-Optimization On 11/09/2025 18:26, Rett Berg wrote: > > Nothing is changes in the generated bytecode (except possibly with >

9/12/25

David Favro, … Philippe Verdy6

9/7/25

-O3 triggers compiler warning [x86_64, Linux, gcc]

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/VerboseDiagnostics#assuming_signed_overflow_does_not_occur_when_simplifying_conditional_to_constant_.5B-Wstrict-overflow.5D -- David

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-O3 triggers compiler warning [x86_64, Linux, gcc]

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/VerboseDiagnostics#assuming_signed_overflow_does_not_occur_when_simplifying_conditional_to_constant_.5B-Wstrict-overflow.5D -- David

9/7/25

Sainan, … Philippe Verdy8

8/27/25

utf8.offset acknowledges null terminator

, see wiki, but reality has pitfalls of "possibly corrupted" strings.... you better always check carefully, how utf8 lib functions handle such illegal "utf8 chars

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utf8.offset acknowledges null terminator

, see wiki, but reality has pitfalls of "possibly corrupted" strings.... you better always check carefully, how utf8 lib functions handle such illegal "utf8 chars

8/27/25

Badr Elmers, … Sainan21

7/13/25

How to pass Unicode utf8 as command line arguments to a Lua script?

read the wiki article "Unicode in Windows", and I am really > surprised that as you say only WinNT used Unicode False. Re-read my previous email, I never said that. WinNT

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How to pass Unicode utf8 as command line arguments to a Lua script?

read the wiki article "Unicode in Windows", and I am really > surprised that as you say only WinNT used Unicode False. Re-read my previous email, I never said that. WinNT

7/13/25

6/20/25

[RFC]: Patch to lua.c for saving command-line history

.org wiki . I have continued to maintain and use this patch ever since, and it still works fine for me today. It's simple and short. I wrote about some possible shortcomings in the

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[RFC]: Patch to lua.c for saving command-line history

.org wiki . I have continued to maintain and use this patch ever since, and it still works fine for me today. It's simple and short. I wrote about some possible shortcomings in the

6/20/25

Denis Dos Santos Silva, … bil til14

4/22/25

how clone a lua state ?

org/wiki/PlutoLibrary https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497482/clone-a-lua-state https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1383768/cloning-lua-state Em terça-

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how clone a lua state ?

org/wiki/PlutoLibrary https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497482/clone-a-lua-state https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1383768/cloning-lua-state Em terça-

4/22/25

Christos Gitsis, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

4/15/25

lua-users.org/wiki error 404 not found

Yes, unfortunately lua-users.org is down for the time being. We hope it won't be long. Thanks for your patience. --lhf

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lua-users.org/wiki error 404 not found

Yes, unfortunately lua-users.org is down for the time being. We hope it won't be long. Thanks for your patience. --lhf

4/15/25

David Sicilia, … Pierre Chapuis6

3/19/25

The Lua Century

org/wiki/Lunar_calendar) :) -- Pierre Chapuis On Fri, Mar 14, 2025, at 03:14, David Sicilia wrote: > I assert that Lua is the only programming language where this is true: > >

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The Lua Century

org/wiki/Lunar_calendar) :) -- Pierre Chapuis On Fri, Mar 14, 2025, at 03:14, David Sicilia wrote: > I assert that Lua is the only programming language where this is true: > >

3/19/25

Soni "They/Them" L., … Denis Dos Santos Silva9

2/9/25

string.format like printf(1)

org/wiki/StringInterpolation http://lua-users.org/wiki/VarExpand Em quinta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2025 às 11:41:24 UTC-3, Lars Müller escreveu: > Using a barebones fmt

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string.format like printf(1)

org/wiki/StringInterpolation http://lua-users.org/wiki/VarExpand Em quinta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2025 às 11:41:24 UTC-3, Lars Müller escreveu: > Using a barebones fmt

2/9/25

Sainan, … Gé Weijers9

1/8/25

Incorrect multiplication result

operands. I also can't find anything in lvm.c that would suggest special overflow handling. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator -- Sainan

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Incorrect multiplication result

operands. I also can't find anything in lvm.c that would suggest special overflow handling. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator -- Sainan

1/8/25

Roberto Ierusalimschy, … Vaughan McAlley13

1/4/25

org/wiki/Squared_triangular_number > > -- > Pierre Chapuis > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2025, at 07:57, bil til wrote: > >> > Bonne et heureuse année 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^

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org/wiki/Squared_triangular_number > > -- > Pierre Chapuis > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2025, at 07:57, bil til wrote: > >> > Bonne et heureuse année 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^

1/4/25

Adam P, … Philippe Verdy7

1/3/25

Lua Website links hacked

Are the wiki > sources accessible anywhere? > > Happy holidays, > Lars > On 22/12/2024 06:28, Berwyn Hoyt wrote: > > Hi Lars, > > You are correct: the wiki

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Lua Website links hacked

Are the wiki > sources accessible anywhere? > > Happy holidays, > Lars > On 22/12/2024 06:28, Berwyn Hoyt wrote: > > Hi Lars, > > You are correct: the wiki

1/3/25

Berwyn Hoyt, … John Belmonte10

10/29/24

Does anybody manage lua-users wiki?

lua-wiki and spam issues - there >>> is not quite straightforward solution - not sure it is worth trying "as >>> is", but perhaps some of us may hit upon

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Does anybody manage lua-users wiki?

lua-wiki and spam issues - there >>> is not quite straightforward solution - not sure it is worth trying "as >>> is", but perhaps some of us may hit upon

10/29/24

Thijs Schreijer, … Denis Dos Santos Silva6

10/15/24

[ANN] uuid 1.0.0 released

org/wiki//dev/urandom). 2. In some cases, access to /dev may be denied by a call to chroot(2). In this case, neither /dev/random or /dev/urandom is reachable via Lua's io.open

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[ANN] uuid 1.0.0 released

org/wiki//dev/urandom). 2. In some cases, access to /dev may be denied by a call to chroot(2). In this case, neither /dev/random or /dev/urandom is reachable via Lua's io.open

10/15/24

Robert Kudyba, … sur-behoffski5

9/19/24

configuring multiple versions/different OS version of LUA over HPC shared directory

luarocks/wiki/Using-LuaRocks > > Here's an extended excerpt from that section: > > **** > > Most LuaRocks installations will feature two rocks trees: >

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configuring multiple versions/different OS version of LUA over HPC shared directory

luarocks/wiki/Using-LuaRocks > > Here's an extended excerpt from that section: > > **** > > Most LuaRocks installations will feature two rocks trees: >

9/19/24

Alexander Bock, … Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira12

8/9/24

Safety/Security w.r.t. untrusted code

org/wiki/SandBoxes inside C code you can inject sandbox on lua realisation, and inside lua realisation sandbox load every other lua code with full empty or full custom _ENV and _G I

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Safety/Security w.r.t. untrusted code

org/wiki/SandBoxes inside C code you can inject sandbox on lua realisation, and inside lua realisation sandbox load every other lua code with full empty or full custom _ENV and _G I

8/9/24

Reuben Thomas, John Belmonte2

7/22/24

Fwd: Cannot upload files to lua-users.org

to allow wiki and file area edits. (The new host has SELinux constraints which need to be navigated.) Not sure when I'll get back to it. I must admit that read-only has been a nice respite

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Fwd: Cannot upload files to lua-users.org

to allow wiki and file area edits. (The new host has SELinux constraints which need to be navigated.) Not sure when I'll get back to it. I must admit that read-only has been a nice respite

7/22/24

Jean-Philippe Humbert, … Roberto Ierusalimschy20

7/18/24

Compare numbers

them built in, Lua does not. Google "decimal floating point" to know more, or you can start from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point P.

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Compare numbers

them built in, Lua does not. Google "decimal floating point" to know more, or you can start from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point P.

7/18/24

Andrey Dobrovolsky, … Roberto Ierusalimschy26

6/26/24

tables constructor nesting limit

//wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding > > > > -- Martin > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic

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tables constructor nesting limit

//wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding > > > > -- Martin > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic

6/26/24

Jonathan van Tuijl, … Lourival Vieira Neto17

6/23/24

string.format rejects uppercase %F

org/wiki/C99#Design), as well as an overview of implementations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations). Here's what the summary says about Visual Studio

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string.format rejects uppercase %F

org/wiki/C99#Design), as well as an overview of implementations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99#Implementations). Here's what the summary says about Visual Studio

6/23/24

Foster, … ppp vvv3

6/6/24

Request: Wiki written in Lua other than Sputnik

> I've been using Justine Tunney's Redbean https://redbean.dev/ https://github.com/amreus/tiddly-bean

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Request: Wiki written in Lua other than Sputnik

> I've been using Justine Tunney's Redbean https://redbean.dev/ https://github.com/amreus/tiddly-bean

6/6/24

Sean Conner, … Denn...@protonmail.com7

5/10/24

Re: metatable __call function does not operate as documented

://lua-users.org/wiki/VarargTheSecondClassCitizen Additionally, PIL online is Lua 5.0, which differs in that varargs *are* stored in a table. Disregard this: it is not real.

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Re: metatable __call function does not operate as documented

://lua-users.org/wiki/VarargTheSecondClassCitizen Additionally, PIL online is Lua 5.0, which differs in that varargs *are* stored in a table. Disregard this: it is not real.

5/10/24

最萌小汐, … Rett Berg13

4/25/24

Proposal: Optional Chaining

org/wiki/SvenOlsen [2] https://pluto-lang.org/docs/New%20Features/Safe%20Navigation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

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Proposal: Optional Chaining

org/wiki/SvenOlsen [2] https://pluto-lang.org/docs/New%20Features/Safe%20Navigation -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

4/25/24

Benoit Germain, … bil til8

3/18/24

Question to Lanes users: Is C++ a problem for you?

org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B It says: "However, C is not a subset of C++, and nontrivial C programs will not compile as C++ code without modification. Likewise

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Question to Lanes users: Is C++ a problem for you?

org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B It says: "However, C is not a subset of C++, and nontrivial C programs will not compile as C++ code without modification. Likewise

3/18/24

Björn Buckwalter, … Thijs Schreijer22

3/18/24

Working with dates and time?

org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time > > I'm not crazy enough to get into debates about time tracking, but this > system > works well for me and I'm not expecting

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Working with dates and time?

org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time > > I'm not crazy enough to get into debates about time tracking, but this > system > works well for me and I'm not expecting

3/18/24

Rana Ayaz, Paul Merrell3

3/7/24

How to create a textview in Lua that keeps updating automatically i.e. different results can be displayed in the same textview.

org/wiki/DayOfWeekAndDaysInMonthExample > > Display Calendar In HtmlDisplays a Calendar in HTML > > http://lua-users.org/wiki/DisplayCalendarInHtml. >

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How to create a textview in Lua that keeps updating automatically i.e. different results can be displayed in the same textview.

org/wiki/DayOfWeekAndDaysInMonthExample > > Display Calendar In HtmlDisplays a Calendar in HTML > > http://lua-users.org/wiki/DisplayCalendarInHtml. >

3/7/24

2/28/24

Web Scraping using Lua

lot of wiki webpages and extract specific elements from it. Here's an example of the kind of webpage that I need to scrape. I initially did this using python but because this is being

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Web Scraping using Lua

lot of wiki webpages and extract specific elements from it. Here's an example of the kind of webpage that I need to scrape. I initially did this using python but because this is being

2/28/24

云风 Cloud Wu, alittle zhuo2

2/19/24

[ANN] Ant : An open-source game engine implemented based on Lua

: https://github-com.translate.goog/ejoy/ant/wiki?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=zh-CN&_x_tr_pto=wapp -- http://blog.codingnow.com great!

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[ANN] Ant : An open-source game engine implemented based on Lua

: https://github-com.translate.goog/ejoy/ant/wiki?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=zh-CN&_x_tr_pto=wapp -- http://blog.codingnow.com great!

2/19/24

Summpot, … bil til9

2/12/24

read_numeral never handles negative numbers

> in Wiki "Signed number representations" / 0x80 / "Offset binary..."). > > ... if you reach such high integers without understanding what going >

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read_numeral never handles negative numbers

> in Wiki "Signed number representations" / 0x80 / "Offset binary..."). > > ... if you reach such high integers without understanding what going >

2/12/24

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