Re: Why does lua interpreter need = in front of variables?

[David Given <dg@...>]

Niklas Frykholm wrote:
[...]
> function string:rep(n)
>    local out = ""
>    for i=1,n do out = out .. self end
>    return out
> end

Did you know that there already is a string:rep() method?

Also, if you're doing this sort of thing a lot, you should take a look 
at table:concat(). Concatenating strings like you're doing here is 
extremely slow. This kind of code is considerably faster:

  local out = {}
  for i = 1, n do out[i] = self end
  return table.concat(out, " ")

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David Given
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