Re: assignment

[Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@...>]

Peter Odding wrote:
> Lua doesn't support references to scalar values (numbers and strings). 
> One way to emulate them is to wrap your values in tables, which are 
> always of reference type. This topic has been discussed a few times 
> before, see for example 
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-12/msg00370.html, References (as 
> in Perl).
>
> When searching for stuff like this, the mailinglist is also a valuable 
> source. There's a search-form at http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/.

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the lesson.

Lua is just different enough to me that in some areas I haven't quite 
yet wrapped my head around Lua's idioms and the Lua way of things.

I do normally search the mailing lists. I keep an archive in Thunderbird 
just for such purposes. But alas somethings aren't easy to search. In 
this case I simply forgot. :) Thanks for the reminder.

Jimmie