Saving Lua state

[Steven Frank <stevenf@...>]

I'm still having some trouble getting persistence to work exactly the 
way I want it.  The latest problem is that I want to be able to save 
_everything_ in a table, including functions.  There doesn't seem to be 
an easy way to do this.  I'm also in need of a way to get the name of a 
variable into a Lua string.

Then I realized, for this specific application, it would be easier to 
just flatten and save the entire lua_state, so that the next time you 
launched the app, the entire script environment would be preserved from 
before.

I searched the list archives and saw a lot of people asking for this, 
but no real resolution...  Did anyone figure it out?  Is it a planned 
feature?

Thanks very much, you guys are super helpful,

Steven
http://stevenf.com/