Re: RFE: table ctor syntax enhancement for many-to-one mappings

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za> wrote:
>
> But Tony's implementation in current Lua is not too far behind
> (although I'm not overfond of the name `flatten_keys`:

Yes, names are hard :-)

> as is the similar idea with inverted tables:

Which is in fact what I started with before realising it was equally easy
to produce a syntax very similar to the original requirement.

Tony.
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