lua-enumerable

I've found different ways .. if its a simple Lua situation, where you just want to debug pure Lua code, Zerobraine Studio is a pretty good environment to do it and comes with a debugger. I've tried various other Lua debuggers over the years, these are useful: https://github.com/slembcke/debugger.lua https://slembcke.github.io/DebuggerLua You can also use the debug module: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/lua_debugging.htm Otherwise, I just use gdb if needed (JIT/FFI stuff) and printf's. However, I don't really need to debug much these days - more just testing. Its also kind of important to have automated tests and run them frequently with every major change. Another thing I use frequently in my Lua projects, which I think cuts down a lot of the common bugs that might require debugging, is the lua_enumerable.lua utility module: https://

You might find it handy to add lua-enumerable.lua to your standard set of Lua-project modules: https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/lua-enumerable/blob/maste... See: table.dup()

>"incoherent mixing of arrays and dictionaries" Incoherent? 10 years of Lua development, never had a problem with it. In fact, the ability to use a table as either an array or a dictionary is one of the great features of the language. Most newbie Lua coders get over the differences pretty fast. For everyone else, there is lua-enumerable.lua ... https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/lua-enumerable

Nice library - I've put it on my workbench for some experiments. I've been using lua-enumerable for pretty much the same purpose - its a little lighter (single file to drop into your project) and it grafts on top of table, so its also less likely to impact your other usage of "_", if you use it, in a project .. https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/lua-enumerable

Middle-class is awesome, thanks for sharing that .. I'll put it on my lab bench for hacking over the next few days. Continuing the list of 'handy little Lua libraries that others in this thread might be interested in', I'll add that I think that a lot of newcomers to Lua from languages like Ruby and Python might enjoy having lua-enumerable around as well, which provides a set of enumerable ops that fit in quite well with Lua's tables .. check it out: https://github.com/mikelovesrobots/lua-enumerable Hanappes' got a few nice Lua classes in its lang folder too: https://github.com/makotok/Hanappe/tree/master/projects/hana... Useful for newcomers to Lua and pro's alike, imho ..