RE: Bugs.. ? (was: Re: Lua-users standard libraries project: anyone game?)

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> I've hit the cyclical reference issue before (in a utility for saving "data"
> from scripts).  What I came up with was making a temporary table to hold
> references to any reference based objects (i.e. tables, userdata, functions,
> and threads).

I and Andreas seemed to do the same thing.

> In my "data" file I'd then just record the integer ID "reference" in place
> of the whole object.  I'm not sure what you would present best in "print"
> function, but at least you can avoid the endless recursion.

I used the table address as returned by the original tostring. Handy for
debugging and guaranteed to be unique, so would work for serialisation as
well.

> Ain't it great that you can key off of <anything> in Lua tables. :-)

Yup.

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