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On 02/02/2011 09:40 AM, Leo Razoumov wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 09:07, Patrick Mc(avery>
I wanted to generate a bunch of "free standing tables within a namespace but
not nested in another table. Each table would be a manufacturers part number
and would start with letters and end with numbers, i.e WOT2930, hence the
concatenation.


Is there a good reason why not make them all elements of a table?
Table approach is simple, readable and flexible. For example, you can
make your table read-only so that nobody can change the part number
WOT2930 after it is set. With local variables you still can by mistake
reset the value to something wrong or nil.

--Leo--


Thanks Leo, Thanks again Robby

If there is not a simple way to do this I better not, there's no way I am going to come up with a better idea then you guys, I'll just stick to regular Lua idioms for now, i.e tables in tables.

Have a great day-Patrick