Re: lua_setfield vs lua_rawset

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > But there is not an equivalent lua_rawsetfield(). Is there something I
> > have overlooked, or is this just an oversight?
>
>
> Neither one nor the other. There is no "lua_rawsetfield", but this
> is not an oversight. Some people may need lua_geti (no raw version);
> others may need a lua_getfieldl where the key is given as a string
> with explicit length (and of course some will need a lua_rawgetfieldl
> too). There are endless variations. Lua provides a few variations
> for the cases we feel are more common.

But the decision was made to provide the particular variant of 
lua_setfield(), which is extremely useful. And since the "raw" variants 
add a useful (and sometimes critical) optimization of their own, it 
seems that the equivalent lua_rawsetfield() would have been a good choice.

I guess I'll do a patch :-)

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