Re: [ANN] Microlight (was Re: paving cowpaths with libraries)

[Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@...>]

2012/2/15 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't this extend/update always the same table? I.e. icopy/tcopy
>> would be usable only once.
>
> function icopy(t) return extend({},t) end
>
> Yow, that's right - the table ctor makes a new table if you write it
> out in the old-fashioned way!
>
> I'll have to think about how to do this ... elegantly[1]   However, it
> is not a disaster to have to type extend({},t), especially with a
> better alias like 'copy' ;)
>
> steve d.
>
> [1]'elegance' can be a problem. I am learning Haskell and am amazed at
> the dance of functions. But Haskell has to try harder because the poor
> thing cannot do loops.
>

maybe you can makes extends accepts default argument, if you give one
argument, it thinks another is a {}？