Fabio Mascarenhas

Maybe you have another Lua installation and this is what configure is detecting? Could you try luarocks install LUA_INCDIR=~/SANDBOX/include FFI_DIR=~/SANDBOX alien ## Fabio

Hi Uffe, Alien does not support this directly, but a workaround might be possible. What is the architecture (CPU and OS)? ## Fabio Mascarenhas On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at...

Hi Mike, if you send the change as a pull request it is easier for me to evaluate it. Thanks!

HI, sorry for ignoring your pull request for so long. core.c is in flux right now, with changes from two other users. But your patch looks very interesting, so I...

TypeScript did get classes years before ES6 was finalized and classes officially got into JavaScript, but they had the fig leaf that the proposal was already going through standardization, ES6...

By the way, modeling the `self` parameter in methods as having the type of the record does not scale when you want to do interfaces: ``` local Plus = record...

A simple encoding is to use the "class" as the metatable for the instances, and have `__index` be a circular link: ``` -- local Point = record ... end compiles...

> I would never prevent people to manipulate metatables explicitly like they do today. The only issue is that fully-manual OOP is very dynamic, which means the compiler has no...

This is a Lua parser error for too much syntactical nesting, which is odd. @amochkin, could you post your luarocks/loader.lua and socket.lua here?

lfs.lock does not work with the usual Lua threading patterns: coroutine schedulers like Copas, or threading + multiple states packages like Lanes. Because the different Lua "threads" are in the...