Quoth Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com>, on 2010-11-11 21:05:15 +0100: > Or perhaps SQLite should embed Lua [1] as its powerful, fast, lightweight, > scripting language and be done with it :)
Interestingly enough, there's problems with doing that with stock Lua: SQLite insists on having both 64-bit integers and doubles, and stock Lua only provides the latter, so (for instance) representing rowids properly becomes a pain. Recompiling to use integers instead of floats is easy, but having both is nontrivial, though there exist patches such as LNUM that will give you a variant numeric type. I'd also be cautious about possible platforms where isolating the resultant symbols from a host program that might be using an incompatible Lua would be difficult. Being a library results in different constraints on dependencies than for an out-of-process database engine, unfortunately. These aren't unsolvable, but it's a little harder than it might look. ---> Drake Wilson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
