Re: Implementing read only tables using C API

[David Haley <dchaley@...>]

Hi Tom,

On this day of 6-16-2006 8:49 AM, Tom Miles saw fit to scribe:
> The reason I am doing this is to create a Lua script environment for 
> some end users.  The point of the exercise is to create a simplistic 
> environment in which they can write small lua script functions to 
> perform operations on C objects.  I could just cut and paste some Lua 
> code to do the job, but then every script that gets written (and there 
> are going to be lots) would need to import a library script.  I'm not 
> keen on that approach if it can be avoided.

Could you not load the script yourself (via a loadstring or dobuffer or 
similar) when you create the Lua_State from the C API? That way, it is 
imported, but the end-users don't have to worry about it. I don't know 
if it's the most elegant solution or the "Lua Way" of doing things, but 
I had a similar problem as you and this is how I solved it.

Best,
- David

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