Re: Lua 5.1+ and variable-argument tables

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > I seem to recall someone (lhf?) mentioning that Lua 5.1's behaviour
> > might change in some way regarding the implicit creation of vararg
> > tables from '...' argument lists.
> >
> > Are there any more details on what direction this might take in
> > the future? [...]
>
> In 5.1 the "..." will be itself an expression that results in the
> variable arguments of a vararg function. So, the equivalent of
> <<unpack(arg)>> will be simply "...". If you really want a table
> with all parameters, you can collect them with <<{...}>>.

Thanks, that's very interesting!  So as I understand it, '...'
essentially becomes a way to read the contents of a slice of
the stack.

Thanks,
--Adam
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