Re: Lua as Configuration Conditional Statement inside table definition

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

If this is a compiletime switch and you cannot live with changing the
table on runtime like Francesco  suggested, metalua
http://metalua.luaforge.net/ looks like a tool for you

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Francesco Santini <rincewind@tin.it> wrote:
> 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
>
>