Re: Opposite of unpack() in lua 5.0?

["Ashwin Hirschi" <deery@...>]

Ummm, no... enclosing the function call in curly braces doesn't always do what you'd expect!

When the function returns a nil somewhere, you'll end up with a truncated list of return values after calling unpack on the result.

See Wim's old post here:

	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-04/msg00303.html

Ashwin.


On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:00:30 +0200, Erik Hougaard <erik@hougaard.com> wrote:
> I would just do:
>
> t = { test() } -- Enclose function call in { }
>
> print(t[1])
>
> /Erik
>
>
> Michael Roth wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to lua. I would like to do the opposite of unpack(). Example:
> >
> > function test()
> >   return 1, 2, 3
> > end
> >
> > t = pack(test())
> >
> > print(t[1])
> >
> >
> > But in Lua 5.0 there isn't a pack() function, right? Why not? other
> > solutions possible?
> >
> >
> > Michael



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