Re: Shorten long boolean IF conditions?

[Gregory Bonik <gregory@...>]

Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> > An alternative to the solution with tables is a vararg function:
> 
> With what benefit? O(n) instead of O(log(n))?
> 

First, why O(log(n))? Lua tables are hash tables, not balanced trees.

Second, the table-based solution is still O(n) because it creates a new
table with n elements each time. Anyway, Lua is not about micro
optimizations.

The benefit is compactness: you don't have to introduce any additional
local variables.

-- Gregory