Implicit Table Indexing/Creation

[William Ahern <wahern@...>]

I thought I had spotted a patch awhile ago which came across this list.
It basically allowed for syntax like:

	local t, v;

	v = t.something.innerthing

In this case v would be nil, and the interpreter wouldn't get upset.
Likewise,

	t.something.innerthing = "foo"

would implicitly create the table t.something.

Is there a patch against 5.1 for this? Basically, amongst other less
shallow reasons, I'd much rather be able to do

	proc.slaves.max	= 10
	proc.slaves.min	= 3

rather than

	proc		= {}
	proc.slaves	= { max = 10, min = 3 }

which is still nicer than

	proc	= {
		slaves	= {
			max	= 10,
			min	= 3
		}
	}

Abstractly the namespace of the configuration is hierarchical, but
usually its nice to pretend its flat. And to do that the language needs
to play along.

-- 
William Ahern <wahern@barracudanetworks.com>


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