Re: A very basic thing I don't get

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 01/10/2011 22.25, Petite Abeille wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>
> >   2. Lua has only one data structuring mechanism: `table`.
>
> Furthermore, if one is so inclined, one should feel free to build any type of
>specialized data structure out of the basic
>building blocks provided by the language. [...]

Very, true.

This is IMO a big newbie gotcha: Lua tables are so "high-level", i.e. 
they can be easily used to implement lists, trees, maps, stacks, etc., 
that one can easily think they should provide a much fatter interface 
(the common problem of getting into Lua's spirit).

It's not easy to grasp initially that one can use OOP techniques to turn 
a generic table into, say, a "stack object", with usual push/pop methods.


>

Cheers.
-- Lorenzo