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Very nice.

It kinda feels like it ends before it gets past the stuff I could guess from knowing my way around other scripting languages, but I'm guessing it's a work-in-progress. It'd probably benefit from even a brief "Why Lua?" discussion, though.

It's very pretty, but I'd consider getting rid of the text-shadow on code examples.

(Minor point, but: # as a length operator isn't entirely unique to Lua, Perl has $#foo to return the length [kinda] of the array @foo).

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In Perl $#foo returns the index of the last element. To get the length you use @foo in scalar context. For eg:

    my @bag_of_stuff = qw(do re me fa so la si);

    say $#bag_of_stuff;        # => 6

    say scalar @bag_of_stuff;  # => 7

NB. Lua arrays start at 1. Perl & most other languages start with 0 (zero) index

Yeah, I know (hence "kinda"), didn't seem like the time or place to go on about Perl's quirks, though ;)

There was a screencast on "Why Lua" posted to HN not too long ago.

This one: http://kylecordes.com/2010/lua-strange-loop

Thank you! That's it. He makes a compelling case :)

text-shadow should be removed from the body text as well, it makes the text look blurry and harder to read.

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