I think the conventional understanding is that a pseudo-random function will use a deterministic function to supply the same sequence of pseudo-random numbers every time it is reset, while a (non pseudo) random function will use a deterministic function with a changing seed (such as the current syst...

Ah... you're right, I see the glitch now you point it out. In my head the last line of first_draw was meant to call original_draw directly, not the currently-pointed-to-love.graphics.draw. The slightly refined version: function original_draw(...) -- just a new name -- the existing draw code in all i...

So a bit of lua history: it was originally designed as a configuration language. This is lua's strong suit, and the love infrastructure already provides the ability to do this in a simple manner: it's called the load function. If you have your configuration settings in a file called 'something.conf'...

Or, rather than putting the test/load-the-default-font code into the load function, it could be embedded at the start of the love.graphics.draw function such that any attempt to draw a message before a font has been set will trigger the loading of the default font. function original_draw(...) -- jus...

Ah... I had no idea you were so keen on optimisation. Maybe a way to offset this a little (at least for programs that load at least one font) is load the default font by default, and the to swap it out the first time an explicit font load is performed. Down sides are a little extra startup time, and...

Just been browsing through the getting started section, and thought that something in keeping with making it as simple as possible to get things going would be to have the current font set to the default font when starting the load function. Existing code would continue to work without change, and t...