On 4 Jul, 14:29, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I think the main reason why Lua is much faster than other > dynamic languages is its size. The language is small. You don't list, > dict, tuples, etc...
They have managed to combine list and dict into one type (table) that does the job of both. And yes there are tuples. There are no classes, but there are closures and other building blocks that can be used to create any object-oriented type system (just like CLOS is defined by Lisp, not a part of the basic Lisp syntax). So I imagine it would be possible to define an equivalent to the Python type system in Lua, and compile Python to Lua. Lua can be compiled to Lua byte code. Factoring Lua, out that means we should be able to compile Python to Lua byte code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
