[Mulgara-general] functions

[Gregg Reynolds]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Paul Gearon <gearon at ieee.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Gregg Reynolds <dev at mobileink.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Paul Gearon <gearon at ieee.org> wrote:
> >> Is there anything you'd
> >> like to include in your SPARQL filters or variable expressions (using
> >> the LET keyword) that you don't have yet?
> >>
> > Nothing specific but I think it would be pretty cool to embed Lua so
> users
> > could write their own extension functions.
>
> I don't know Lua, but I guess that shouldn't be too hard.... I hope.  :-)
>

It's a marvel of design, well worth looking into even if you don't adopt
it.  The papers here http://www.lua.org/papers.html are interesting.  The
developers wrote a paper on the history if the language that's a good read:
http://www.lua.org/history.html.  And metalua <http://metalua.luaforge.net/>is
a real mind-bender.

 -g
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