Re: Lua 5 and tags

[Edgar Toernig <froese@...>]

Jamie Webb wrote:
>
> I'd like to add that adding an array part to userdatas would also
> provide fast typing:

Hmm... that gets me back to the old idea of merging userdata and
tables: give every table an additional void* field and remove the
userdata type completely *g*

>                       put a unique light userdata at some known index.
> And indeed, if you could access that array using only the userdata
> pointer, a userdata could serve as a module registry: just get at it
> using a C global variable.

Hmm, sounds dangerous and not really handy...

Ciao, ET.