Re: Q&A with Roberto on Workshop 2012

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@...>]

Thinking out loud, I came to need the following feature, assigning at 
parser time (read-time) the same value to mulitple keys:

Instead of

local t1 = {
   v1 = 10,
   v2 = 10,
   v3 = 10
}

Something like

local t1 = {
    v1 = v2 = v3 = 10
}

Would that be possible to implement.

It's useful in cases where lua is used for configuration/description 
language, and multiple keys match the same value. For example when 
describing configurations for something, and instead of duplicating 
values you can attach them at the same key, like this very simple example:

local conf = {
   windows = "cmd.exe",
   osx = linux = "sh"
}

I don't know whether this is going to work in all cases, or whether it 
carries some parsing gotcha.

Thanks,
Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev.

On 11/30/2012 6:09 AM, Erik Hougaard wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Later today Roberto will do a Q&A (Or perhaps a AMA) - So if you have
> burning questions for Roberto, this is your time to ask them, either on
> the list or directly to me. I will redirect your questions to Roberto.
>
> (Everything is getting recorded, so answer will be in the videos
> released later)
>
> /Erik