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- Subject: Re: Stringification
- From: Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:42:23 GMT
In message <e47324780703141018k2c14d32aw565a52381581ce29@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a way to stringify a variable name in Lua? Something like:
> >
> > stringify(variable) == "variable" -- evaluates to true
Lua uses eager evaluation for function application, so what you are
asking is impossible. Suppose you have
x = 77; y = 77;
Whatever stringify does, stringify(x) and stringify(y) are
both the same as stringify(77). So stringify cannot be a function
in the standard sense.
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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/
