Nmap Development: Re: [Lua snippit] print_hex

[Ron <ron () skullsecurity net>]

Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> I'm pretty sure Brandon, I and others have brought this up in the past, but it
> would be awesome to have a "Best Practices" section (short is fine) in the
> Nmap docs/book somewhere on Lua coding, and any gotchas that could get us who
> come from many other languages (I think most people here learned Lua solely
> for NSE... I know I did).  I know Brandon recently posted a link on learning
> Lua from a Perl background, but I've never been much of a Perl guy.
I agree that a best practices or style guide of some kind would be
handy. While writing a script, there were a few times when I wasn't sure
what the proper style was. Here are some thoughts I had while I was writing:
- Tab indenting or spaces? If spaces, how many?
- Should there be a maximum line length?
- Is it better to use, for example, str:len() or string.length(str)?
When is one preferred?

Among other things.

Thankfully, Lua doesn't have braces so I don't have to be upset at
people who put their braces in the clearly wrong place (you know where
they ought to be)! :)

Ron

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