Lua and C++ - still

OK, one last chunter on this subject, and then it's high time I did some actual work.

Really, one thing that stands out from this is that I don't need to do much to the current setup. The prepare/run (I might call that init/run) approach works well for repeating events that need to be re-initialised. If the function isn't there it doesn't get called. The initial script doesn't have a namespace, but that's fixable, either by allowing a "" namespace meaning "look this up globally" or else by modding setup to use Setup or something similar. Or I could pass "_G" as a namespace, which would cause the lookup to use the global table.

I am a little worried that people will try and write functionality that runs when the chunk is executed, rather than when the functions it defines are executed. The problem there is that I'm not sure when a script/chunk will be executed, so the timing is undefined and subject to change.without notice. But writing the thing to execute when the script is parsed may well work for a lot of events. And of course, there's a pile of Lua that is supposed to work like that.

I guess I still don't have an entirely clear idea of how all this is going to work, despite writing way too many words on the subject.

Maybe the solution is to code some stuff up and see what happens. Getting ideas-on-paper is one thing, but this is turning into putting-off-work.