From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to use tex.print in ctxlua
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:53:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3d6dbe2-a4de-678f-3c6b-7fbc297222e0@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38578022-f4f0-40d1-2352-cad07940191d@gmx.es>
On 19.03.2017 16:56, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> is there any reason not to use the following instead of your way below?
>
> for i = 1,n do
> tex.print("(" .. vecteurX[i] .. ", " .. vecteurY[i] .. ")\\par")
> end
I don't think that this is a good approach. Refer to chapter 11.6 of
"Programming in Lua" to see why string concatenation is computationally
expensive. (It wouldn't matter in this simple case, but it's not a good
habit to develop.)
All best
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-19 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-19 15:30 Otared Kavian
2017-03-19 15:39 ` josephcanedo
2017-03-19 15:51 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-03-19 16:39 ` Otared Kavian
2017-03-19 17:28 ` Hans Hagen
2017-03-19 15:56 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-03-19 16:42 ` Otared Kavian
2017-03-19 16:53 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2017-03-19 16:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-03-19 16:46 ` Otared Kavian
2017-03-19 16:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2017-03-19 17:17 ` Otared Kavian
2017-03-19 17:26 ` Hans Hagen
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