Re: question about cdata type identification

[Luis Carvalho <lexcarvalho@...>]

> > Matrix accessor is my big big pain!!! The option M[x][y] is highly
> > inefficient but somewhat convenient. I'm using the direct access
> > M[M.pitch * y + x] for optimized routine but I propose the syntax:
> > 
> > m:get(i, j)
> > 
> > to the user. Quite ugly but I don't have anything better.
> 
> How about using __call and writing m(i,j)?

That's fine for getting, but not for setting (__call cannot be used as
l-value). Moreover, you might want to reserve __call for other semantics: in
Numlua, m(first, last, step) returns a slice of matrix `m`, for instance
(Numlua uses m[i][j] for getting and setting entries).

Cheers,
Luis

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