Re: Opposite of unpack?

["Eduardo Ochs" <eduardoochs@...>]

A question, then:

Will there still be some way to write a function f, in pure Lua, that
distinguishes if it was called as f(1, 2, nil) or as f(1, 2), after
"arg" has been deprecated?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Eike Decker <eike@cube3d.de> wrote:
> As far as I know, this is deprecation and depends on how the lua interpreter was
> compiled.
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> Eike
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>> Hi Michael,
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>>   pack = function (...) return arg end
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>> Cheers,
>>   Eduardo Ochs
>>   http://angg.twu.net/
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>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Michael Gerbracht <smartmails@arcor.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry for this really simple question but at the moment I can not find the
>> > answer by myself although I think it's really simple. If I have a function
>> > that returns more than one value - how do I get them into a table? I need
>> > something like this:
>> >
>> > function test()
>> >  result = some table of results
>> >  return unpack(result)
>> > end
>> >
>> > local t = {}
>> > t = pack(test())
>> > print(t[2])
>> >
>> > Unfortunately there is no pack command, but I am sure it can be done
>> > somehow. Please assume that I can't change the function itself, otherwise
>> > the best solution would be to change the function to "return result" of
>> > course ;-)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Michael
>> >
>> > --
>> > ...using RiscLua 4.14, built from Lua 5.1.3
>> >
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