dofile and ...

["Peter Shook" <pshook@...>]

Good work guys, replacing arg with ... is a great idea.

It makes code easier to read:

   function printf(...) io.write(string.format(...)) end

And being able to access the args passed to the function returned by 
loadstring/loadfile is really great too.


Here is a modified version of dofile for those who can't wait to play with 
this feature:

static int luaB_dofile (lua_State *L) {
 const char *fname = luaL_optstring(L, 1, NULL);
 int n = lua_gettop(L);
 if (luaL_loadfile(L, fname) != 0) lua_error(L);
 lua_insert(L, 1);
 lua_call(L, n, LUA_MULTRET);
 return lua_gettop(L);
}

$ cat x.lua

print(...)

$ bin/lua
Lua 5.1 (work1)  Copyright (C) 1994-2004 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio
> dofile('x.lua',1,2,3)
x.lua   1       2       3
>

Cheers,

- Peter

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