Re: Numerical constants

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 24/05/2007 13:30, I wrote:
> I never looked closely at its implementation, but I recall that in Lua 
> integration to SciTE, author avoided to put all the constants in the Lua 
> variable space, bloating the memory use.

Of course, I meant that he avoided to bloat the memory, by avoiding to 
have these constants both in the C code and the Lua memory (as we don't 
want to rely on some separate script file).

> Instead, all constants from the Scintilla component are defined as 
> global variables, and using the __index metamethod on _G, he retrieves 
> the constant on demand.

I suppose you can, of course, also put them in some proxy table, to 
avoid polluting global namespace.
This "pollution" isn't a problem in small scripts used in an application.

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