Re: Expanding variables at function declarion time

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

> upvalues do have their merits.
> 
> $ lua
> Lua 4.1 (alpha)  Copyright (C) 1994-2001 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio
> > function declare(name) setglobal( name, function() return %name..'!' end ) end
> > declare'bill'
> > declare'bert'
> > print(bert(),bill())
> bert!   bill!
> > 

Thanks, indeed that does work.  I had tried something along those lines,
but I was working with a global 'name', so:

    name = "xyzzy"
    setglobal( name, function() return %name..'!' end ) end

results in:

    error: global upvalues are obsolete;

Works nicely with the local / arg though.

Thanks also to Steve for the dostring() solution which also works.


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- Peter Loveday
eyeon Software