Due to differences in scoping rules, a closure's referencing of an outer variable (called "upvalues" in Lua parlance) may be handled differently in Lua and in Javascript. This is most commonly experienced withc
Due to differences in scoping rules, a closure's referencing of an outer variable (called "upvalues" in Lua parlance) may be handled differently in Lua and in Javascript. This is most commonly experienced withclosures inforloops, and catches some people by surprise. In Javascript, the body of...
Due to differences in scoping rules, a closure's referencing of an outer variable (called "upvalues" in Lua parlance) may be handled differently in Lua and in Javascript. This is most commonly experienced with closures inforloops, and catches some people by surprise. In Javascript, the body o...
Foreach in JS loops over object properties.Foreachin Lua (which use the keywordfor) loops over iterators and is more general. JS has global and function scope. Lua hasglobal and block scope. Control structures (e.g.if,for,while) introduce newblocks. Due to differences in scoping rules, a...
So what's the differences between CASTL and Tessel Colony? I have definitively been inspired on many points by Colony. Nonetheless there is some important points of divergence: CASTL is aimed to run on a native Lua 5.2 (unmodified VM) whereas Colony rely on a fork of Lua 5.1. ...
luaCalls: Rewrite function calls to use__lua.callto fix-up various lua<->javascript calling convention differences. luaOperators: Use functions in the standard library instead of conventional operators to improve Lua compatibility. (e.g.a+bbecomes__lua.add(a,b)) ...
Many CSS properties can be accessed from javascript viaMyPanel.style.property. Due to syntax differences between the two languages their names are not identical to their CSS equivalent (this is the same on the web) but are easily deducible: Hyphen-delimited words are converted to camelCase equiv...
Although it appears that libraries and frameworks are the same, there are differences between them. The fundamental difference between the two is the control. When a library is called, the programmer is in complete control of it. When a framework is called, the code makes the programmer lend ...
In this code, we first create a regular expression that looks for the word "hello" without considering case differences. When we test it with "Hello," it returns true. Next, we use the compile() method to change the regex to search for "world" and add a global search flag. We then...
Differences betweenPromise.reject()and throwing errors Throwing errors and usingPromise.reject()might seem similar as both indicate an error or undesired outcome. However,Promise.reject()is used specifically within the context of Promises to return a rejected promise. Throwingerrors, on the other hand...