Re: Questions from a new Lua user...

[Jonathan Adamczewski <jadamcze@...>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Eric Tetz wrote:

> 
> and still being able to call it as
> 
>   drawtext(p:xy(),s)
>   

In this case, call as 
drawtext(s,p:xy()) 
and drawtext gets all three values.  Just change the ordering of names in
the function.


> Or being able to do say something succinct like
> 
>   drawrect(r:bounds(),clr:rgb())
> 
> instead of
> 
>   drawrect(r.tl.x, r.tl.y, r.br.x, r.br.y, clr.r, clr.g, clr.b).
>    

Use tables?  (the following stuff is very unchecked)

function bounds(a)
	local t = {x=1,y=1}
	local b = {x=10,y=10}
	return {tl=t,br=b}
end

r = {bounds=bounds}

drawrect(r:bounds(),...) --whatever

Gives a table containing the four values to drarect.

By using tables and changing the order of arguments, I believe you can do
all the things you have mentioned.

(of coure I could have missed the point - please be gentle pointing out
mistakes... I started with lua just over a week ago :)

Jonathan.