I think Cmud provides a list display using only a two column table. The problem with trying to generalize this could result in tables of tables... the interface would look too ugly. Why not just run a "pretty printer" on the variable contents? That seems like it'd work out just fine to me....

You can implement a "poor man's Set" and make use of speedy O(1) key look-ups. enemies = {} enemies['bob'] = 'bob' enemies['charles'] = 'charles' If you attempt to access an enemy that doesn't exist, "nil" is returned, which is a nice handy false value for your if-statement. In t...

Actually, Perl (currently v5.8.8) does come pre-installed with Mac OS X.

And, yes, AppleScript (ugh) can be executed from the terminal using the osascript command.

Vadi, there's nothing native for Mac OSX, but the most popular third-party app for providing notifications is Growl.

I'm not sure if a Lua binding actually exists at the moment.
http://growl.info/documentation/developer/

Heiko wrote:That is true. We should discuss what additional Lua packages we should include. PCRE or LPeg? Maybe even SQLLite.

SQLite would definitely be nice. I also ran into stdlib, which provides a whole host of awesomeness.

Lua Rocks did (eventually) work, but it didn't "just work". In order to install lrexlib, I had to do: luarocks install lrexlib-pcre PCRE_INCDIR=/opt/local/include PCRE_LIBDIR=/opt/local/lib Prior to setting PCRE_INCDIR and PCRE_LIBDIR, the error I was getting was... Error: Could not find e...

Heiko, absolutely true. As a matter of fact, I built lrexlib yesterday. It was a bear, because there were some undocumented problems I encountered (maybe the way MacPorts installs luarocks borked something... I dunno). The whole time, I kept thinking, "Man, why isn't regexps packaged with Mudle...

Would it be possible to get PCRE as part of the global API?

Like mushclient? http://www.mushclient.com/scripts/doc.p ... al=lua_rex

Caled, good call. I completely forgot about path slow-walking as it related to the mapper. I certainly wasn't suggesting paths be utilized by the system as strings... just instantiated using strings. p = path.new('s2w3e') => Path object with attribute: {'s', 'w', 'w', 'e', 'e', 'e'} Then you get all...

I see. I was only explaining zMud path features and not making a solid persuasive argument, though. :) I've actually written a scripting engine in Ruby, and after much deliberation, decided to put zMud-style paths in. The deciding factor was I wanted to provide a system-level method of composing dir...