Re: how to load a very large table with more than 2^18 literal strings?

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 05:38, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

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> So, in principle, you could
> "merge" a table literal into an existing table very efficiently, if only we
> could say it in the program.

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> Other possibilities that do not require a new token are
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>        t:{ ... }

I'd be happy to see this syntax in future Lua versions. I see a good
few places in my code, where such syntax would help.

Alexander.