Re: varargs & table.insert()?

["varol kaptan" <varol.kaptan@...>]

On 8/3/07, Ketmar Dark <ketmar@ic.km.ua> wrote:
> hello, PA <petite.abeille@gmail.com>.
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:06:24 +0200
> PA <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How does one generalize that to insert a value anywhere in a varargs?
> rewrite table.insert in Lua, so it will use xxx.n, not #n. something
> like:

... or ... you can compile lua 5.1.2 with LUA_COMPAT_GETN defined in
luaconf.h and you will get the old 5.0 semantics (except for the '#'
operator, which was not there anyway).

> local function NewInsert (tbl, position, value)
>   if position <= tbl.n then
>     for f = tbl.n, position, -1 do tbl[f+1] = tbl[f]; end;
>   end;
>   tbl[position] = value;
>   return tbl;
> end;