Re: Lua as Configuration Conditional Statement inside table definition

[Francesco Santini <rincewind@...>]

Il 10/11/2010 08:45, Gopalakrishnan Subramani ha scritto:
> Hello All,

Hello list,

I take this chance to end my lurking period and say hi to everybody. I'm 
no big expert so I apologize if my solution is naive:

> Here I am start with simple example of definition the enumeration.
>
> Enum1 = ENUMERATION {
>      {1, "Forward"},
>     {2, "Backword"},
>
>     if BIDIERCTIONAL_SUPPORTED then
>        {3, "BiDirectional"},
>
>    {4, "None" }
> }
>
> If you see, the "Bidirectioanl" is added only if it is enabled. I don't
> think, Lua support statements within the table definition.
>
> Can you help me different possibilities in Lua to resolve this issue?

Why don't you just define the table without the third element, and 
insert it afterwards conditionally?

Enum1 = ENUMERATION {
     {1, "Forward"},
     {2, "Backword"},
     {4, "None" }
 }

if BIDIRECTIONAL_SUPPORTED then
	table.insert(Enum1, 3, {3, "BiDirectional"})
end

HTH

Francesco