Re: Table init syntax suggestion

[lhf@... (Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo)]

>From: David Jeske <jeske@home.chat.net>
>
>It occured to me that it would be really neat to be able to setup
>fallback methods 'inline' in table creation.
>
>For example, instead of doing:
>
>a_tag = newtag();
>settagmethod("gc",function () print("resource closed"); end);
>a_table = { [1] = "foo",
>            [2] = "bar" };
>settag(a_table,a_tag);
>
>It would be convinent to do:
>
>a_table = { [1] = "foo",
>            [2] = "bar",
>            [`gc] = function () print("resource closed"); end };
>
>Or something along those lines.

how about this:

function T(a)
	local a_tag = newtag();
	if a._gc then settagmethod(a_tag,"gc",a._gc) end
	settag(a,a_tag)
	return a
end

a_table = T{ [1] = "foo",
            [2] = "bar",
            _gc = function () print("resource closed"); end };

--lhf