Re: Calling a field in the same table

[Brett Nash <nash@...>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:06:06 -0500
Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> wrote:

> Quoth Luciano de Souza <luchyanus@predialnet.com.br>, on 2010-04-24
> 23:17:23 -0300:
> > database = 
> > {
> > filename = 'test.db',
> > connection = sqlite3.open(database.filename)
> > }
> > 
> > An error shows up because I can't use "database.filename" inside
> > the table "database".
> 
> The table isn't fully constructed yet.  If you have specific order of
> evaluation requirements you can create the table first and then add
> entries to it one-by-one:

For what it is worth, this is a very common error, and easy to do
accidentally even when you are reasonably experienced with Lua.  Having
said that it tends to be easy work out what is wrong after a little
experience.

Is is in any of the Lua FAQs?  I can't see it in any of the following
witn a quick scan:
 http://www.lua.org/faq.html
 http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaFaq
 http://batbytes.com/luafaq/

	Regards,
	nash