Re: predefined constants

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

> I am looking at cutting an existing c++ algorithm to lua.
> The current c++ version uses a lot (~30) of #defined state flags.

Since it looks like you're about to do a lot of dispatching based on a state variable that can take several dozen forms, you might consider creating a table that maps each state value to a function to handle that state.

To store / define the various state constants I'd go with strings: using them as indexes (or comparing them, for that matter) is very fast, because Lua stores them only once.

Ashwin.
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