Re: CHanging the order of parameters, is that possible?

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 05.01.2013 um 17:38 schrieb Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>:

> pack, change, unpack ?

Yes, I was able to something in this direction.  It works now.

Thanks,
Marc

> 
> 
> Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> schreef:
> Is it possible to change the order of parameters in a function taking varargs?  Maybe using the select(n, ...) function?
> 
> This is what I want to do:
> 
> function foo(fmt, ...)
>     -- switch element 1 and 2 of {...}
> 
>    print(string.format('%d %s', ...))
> end
> 
> 
> foo('%s %d', 42, 'balmer')
> 
> (background is doing i18n in Lua, whith messages (= format strings) that can have the order of parameters changed)


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