the pattern matcher a potential DoS target That's an interesting thought. Do you happen to know any example of a pattern that can be used that way? I could find/think of none. you can quite easily invoke catastrophic backtracking for example the code: ("a"):rep(100):match(patt) where patt...

ocd: spend way too much time trying to design an overcomplicated structure, get too lazy to actually code, then dump the project

kikito wrote:It's possible to detect infinite loops in Lua if the debug lib is available.

of course, that depends on what you mean by "in Lua". C functions called through lua can't be monitored by the debug hook. notably, this makes the pattern matcher a potential DoS target

Boolsheet wrote:So, yes. A PRNG with consistent behaviour is very welcome.

COUGHluajitCOUGH

Davidobot wrote:

jjmafiae wrote: am i the only person who dons't know what luajit is or ?

i have heard many people talk about.

As far as I know, it is an experimental Lua thing that super-charges LÖVE games to run at double the usual FPS.

or more than that if you play your cards right

arch = string.dump(function() end):byte(9) == 4 and "x86" or "x64" well, technically this would tell you what architecture the executable is, not necessarily the os... You must be a wizard. Seriously. Some explanations ? it's the part of the bytecode header that stores sizeof(si...

or a dodgy one well, technically this would tell you what architecture the executable is, not necessarily the os...

Hello everyone. Middleclass is a pretty good class implementation. Currently I'm writing a very small and simple gui lib for my game. I want buttons to change color when mouse in hovering on them, but strangely enough I can't use tables in initialize method. Enough talking, let me give you some pie...

BlackBulletIV wrote:

Eamonn wrote:Unless you're making a 20 line throwout script, get in the habit of using local variables; it'll make life so much easier in the long run.

even in that case i still use locals purely out of habit

T-Bone wrote:The only downside I can think of with keywords is that editors can't match them up, which can make some mistakes hard to notice.

uh... there's no reason they can't (lua's parser has no problem doing it). they just don't for some reason