Talk:Lua FAQ

I really love the LSL Portal and so would appreciate if Lua can get the same treatment or coexist without causing confusion to existing or new scripters.

So I'm wondering about technical documentation and conflicts with LSL. Perhaps a) it might be wisest to create a "Lua Portal" that mirrors the LSL Portal but then is expanded over time. And/Or b) would all LSL functions pages (and the LSL Function template) be updated to show the Lua version? c) What if there is Lua-only function later or syntactical differences esp with functions that use or return lists as lists may not exist in Lua or work differently to Lua tables? And d) would a lot of the function documentation diverge too much due to differences in the languages in how they may need to treat types, operators and example code?

It seems a Lua Portal will be inevitable anyway, because there needs to be a central location where all the Lua-specific pages can be accessed from easily, such as developer resources (tutorials, guides and script examples and libraries), and Lua language reference just as easily as for LSL and also avoid confusing beginners dealing with two different languages on the platform.

Another thing to look at might be that there are a lot of LSL-specific pages that may need to be prefixed with LSL_ in their pages still, e.g. State, While, If, etc since Lua will have differences to LSL. On the other hand there are also some other portals that also invade the global namespace e.g. Coding Standard, Features, Glossary. All of this affects search functionality. A disambiguation page or template akin to wikipedia may be necessary in place of some of the existing redirects. If someone searches for "string" or "if" they get fed with LSL currently.

-- Nexii Malthus 14:19, 4 July 2024 (PDT)