Re: Converting pointers to Lua values?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I'm just curious, is there an indirect way?

Yes. You can keep a (weak) table mapping light userdata to their
corresponding objects.


> Contrast this with the simplicity of expanding a table associated with
> a non-pointer key.

You can have exactly the same simplicity using pointer keys (light
userdata).

-- Roberto