On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:35:17PM +0200, askok@dnainternet.net wrote:
The only thing I'd really want of Lua itself, is enumerated types,
so that C API
constants can be used as type-aware parameters, and catch any
"false" usage
(color enum where font enums should be, and such). This is a major
issue for
coding larger programs with SDL, Gtk+ etc. and currently, just
placing those
enums as integers is a Lowsy Solution. I shall look into this, if
it could be
achieved by the extended metatable handling there now is, or some
other "stock
Lua" technique.
I've found a very easy way to do this in Lua 5.0 with light userdata.
The following example, not fully tested, is similar to the code I
use in
my research:
