Re: referencing table elements within the same table constructor

["Warlich, Christof" <christof.warlich@...>]

> Do you have a different variable 'interface' defined somewhere else? What is

> the error you are seeing?

> 

> Because I'd have thought this would work:

> 

> C:\>lua

> Lua 5.1.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

> > T = { v = 1, f = function() print("Here is T.v: " .. T["v"]) end }

> > T.f()

> Here is T.v: 1

> > T = { v = 42, f = function() print("Here is T.v: " .. T.v) end }  -- or

> using dot notation

> > T.f()

> Here is T.v: 42

> >

> 

> Robby

Oh, mea culpa! I tried this:

xxx = {

    a = 10,

    b = xxx["a"]

}

print(xxx["a"], xxx["b"])

 

As this (presumably simpler) case did not work, I did not even try with a function!

 

Thanks a lot for your help,

 

Christof