Re: My brain hurts

[Michael Bernstein <michael@...>]

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 09:02  AM, Paul Tankard wrote:
>  have a main luavm, register all functions to it, then for each entity 
> have a
>  lua_newthread and do a lua_loadbuffer to the newthread with that 
> particular
>  script... now my head started melting when I thought of the calling 
> process
>  to the Lua script, I mean if I had a few threads each using a script 
> which
>  contained a function of the same name, say initialise, could I do a
>  lua_getglobal in that particular newthread for "initialise" then a 
> lua_call
>  and it would call the corrects scripts function, or does it get set
>  globally-globally so any script that has a function named the same 
> will
>  override the previous declaration like you would do function=nil to 
> remove
>  it ? this is obviously not the ideal way to do this.. especially if I 
> have
>  lots of entities that share the same script as it's using unnecessary
>  overhead, but it would work ;)

namespaces.  enough said :).


>  secondly I could have functions defined in tables then creating an 
> object
>  and using self everywhere this would make sure I don't have repeated 
> chunks
>  of script code and make it more c++ class orientated, but the problem 
> is
>  creating the actual object from C/C++, I mean would I just purge all 
> scripts
>  I needed into one script file then do lua_loadbuffer to the main lua 
> state,
>  and then for each entity do something like lua_dostring("entity1 =
>  createentity:new("blah")); and get the function from the table of 
> entity1
>  and call that etc.

once again, just use namespaces to differentiate between your different 
objects.



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Michael Bernstein

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after 
they have rebelled they cannot become conscious"
--George Orwell, 1984




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Michael Bernstein

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after 
they have rebelled they cannot become conscious"
--George Orwell, 1984