Re: C arrays as Lua tables

[Flemming Madsen <lua@...>]

This is also similar to alien.array(type, len[, buf])

Of course the same argument as with LuaFFI applies, as one would have
to rip out the libffi stuff to only have buffers and arrays ...

/Flemming

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Dimitris Papavasiliou
<dpapavas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, how does this compare to LuaFFI's [1] array and structure
>> manipulation?
>
> I'm not familiar with LuaFFI but from what I understand from the
> description its purpose is to allow a programmer to mix Lua and C
> code.  LuaFFI therefore has a much larger scope but it inevitably
> introduces all of C's complexity into Lua to achieve that.