RE: copying tables across lua states

["Eric Ries" <eries@...>]

At There, we have developed the ability to share a reference between
completely independant lua_States under Lua 4.0. It's a bit dangerous, but
if you know what you're doing, it can be useful. Let me know if you'd be
interested in seeing the code.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
[mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of Ignacio Castaño
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 12:21 PM
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Subject: Re: copying tables across lua states


"Edgar Toernig" wrote:
> Completely independent states or threads with shared state?  And you have
> to set some value.  Is a simple 1 enough?

not that simple. It's not a shared table, the values of the table are
shared, but the table itself not. That is, I want to be able to change a
value that exists in both tables, but i can add key-value pairs to each
table independently, so, a pair added to a table won't appear in the other.
I think that's actually not possible so i will have to think about doing
something different.


Ignacio Castaño
castano@asidesoft.com