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241. [Proposal?] Environment stacks (score: 24)

Author: "Thiago L." <fakedme@...>

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:55:05 -0200

Idk if I consider this a proposal or not, but what if environments had stacks? For example, let's say we add a new keyword "setsenv" (set scope environment), and another one "getsenv" (get scope envi

242. Re: Awkward enough to comment: __call(t, ...) and self (score: 24)

Author: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:25:15 -0500

I take most of this back.... Upon further inspection, "t" is the current table being called and when called with a colon, I'm getting the parent table. This is actually pretty awesome and useful. Sor

243. RE: C++ binding (score: 24)

Author: Timothée VERROUIL <dreamothee@...>

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:18:45 +0000

Thanls a lot, but i get this error : PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (attempt to index a string value), Here's my code : for each attribute I do the following : lua_pushstring(L, attribut

244. Re: Updated RVM patch against Lua5.1.4---needs review (score: 24)

Author: Jim Pryor <lists+lua@...>

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:25:34 -0400

Here's an update. iFollowing a suggestion from Mike Pall, I changed the patch so that now it reverts, rather than tries to merge, the Attached now are _two_ patches against the original patch file: h

245. Re: Register Lua callback functions from within Lua to C++ (score: 24)

Author: "Peter Cawley" <lua@...>

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:09:47 +0000

It depends on which Lua/C++ binding framework you're using, but I'd guess that a copy of the Lua-ized 'this' pointer will be at stack index 1, and so you could use lua_pushvalue(L, 1); to push a copy

246. Problems with creating a table from backend (score: 24)

Author: jdarling@...

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:54:06 -0700

I can't believe I can't find a sample of this, but I'm having problems creating a table that contains "settings" for a method. Below is the code I've tried along with comments and the exception that

247. Re: Struggling with _ENV in Lua 5.2 (score: 23)

Author: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:25:49 +0100

FWIW, works fine for me. Prints 30 as expected. So most likely something wrong with your build and/or how you execute your code. http://alt.textdrive.com/assets/public/non/nq050816.gif

248. Re: Error message running iupgl.wlua (score: 23)

Author: Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@...>

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:36:56 +0200

Andrew Wilson schrieb: Hmm, Frank, that is odd, both iupgl.wlua & iupglcanvas.wlua work for me on Lua for Windows. Anyone else having problem with those examples??? Andrew 1st, let me say: Many thank

249. Re: Newbie install question: why does lua.eval() not work? (score: 23)

Author: "Julian Moore" <jlulian38@...>

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:48:34 -0700

Lua doesn't have such a command. If you want to execute the contents of a string, you would do: assert(loadstring(...))() -- Thomas Harning Jr. You could do something like function eval(str) return a

250. Re: Newbie install question: why does lua.eval() not work? (score: 23)

Author: "Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 01:25:35 -0400

lua.eval might be a command for elinks. Lua doesn't have such a command. If you want to execute the contents of a string, you would do: assert(loadstring(...))() get any form of eval working: Lua 5.0

251. Newbie install question: why does lua.eval() not work? (score: 23)

Author: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@...>

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:44:51 -0600

I just installed Lua to script elinks (I recompiled elinks w/ Lua support). From the command-line, basic Lua expressions work fine, but I can't get any form of eval working: lua Lua 5.0 Copyright (C)

252. LuaSoap - require "luasocket" problems (score: 23)

Author: Paul Hudson <phudson1442@...>

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:35:32 -0700 (PDT)

Hello everyone, I am trying to get LuaSoap (luasoap-1.0b.zip) working in Lua5.1. The first batch of errors trickled down to needing to recompile LuaExpat specifically for Lua5.1 and not compat-5.1. B

253. Re: Lua 5.4.0-rc5 segfault in low memory conditions (score: 22)

Author: Sergey Zakharchenko <doublef.mobile@...>

Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:06:11 +0400

Sergey Zakharchenko <doublef.mobile@gmail.com>: I know you're tired of my messages, but behold the ultimate test case for this particular (no longer sure it's one and the same bug throughout this thr

254. Re: Lua 5.4.0-alpha-rc1 behavior with closing methods errors (score: 22)

Author: David Heiko Kolf <david@...>

Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:38:45 +0200

Am 20.06.2019 um 15:33 schrieb nobody: Well, the way I learned it was that a cleanup routine just has one well-defined job and that is to release all resources still used by the object. So whatever h

255. Re: getmetatable-esque metamethod [Forked from:] metatables for strings? (score: 22)

Author: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>

Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 22:38:45 +0200

2015-05-03 21:24 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>: It is trivial to sandbox a string's methods. -- $ lua Lua 5.3.0 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio The quick brown fox stdin:1

256. Re: Multiple indexing (was: 'in' keyword today) (score: 22)

Author: Sean Conner <sean@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:59:42 -0400

It was thus said that the Great Thomas Jericke once stated: That's why I'm asking these questions, to clarify the concept. No ambiguity here. local t = {} -- table: 0x896b2b8 local table = { t = "lal

257. Re: file:write() fails silently for read-only files (score: 22)

Author: Josh Simmons <simmons.44@...>

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:25:24 +1000

Lua's general policy is to throw errors when there's programmer error (like 'coroutine.wrap(7)', and return nil+error message for environmental issues (like files missing or bad permissions).

258. Why this error in table.sort()? (score: 22)

Author: Steve Litt <slitt@...>

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 00:49:29 -0500

Hi all, For my presentation, I'm using table.sort(mytable, sortfcn), where mytable has only consecutive integer keys starting with 1, and each element consists of a table with named keys (fname, lnam

259. Re: what to make of this fellow named __ipairs? (score: 22)

Author: Tony Finch <dot@...>

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:43:45 +0000

One of the significant oddities in Lua is the distinction between methods called using the : operator and metamethods called by the language runtime and some library functions. It is a scruffy mixtur

260. Re: String indexing again (score: 22)

Author: Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:56:14 +0100

Thank you, yes, IMHO writing the call explicitly instead of the ':' notatoin, demonstrates the mechanics nicely $ s = "AAA" $ return s["byte"](s, 1) 52