Re: Call a local function by name.

[Laurent Faillie <l_faillie@...>]

Le 03/05/2013 17:27, Mark Gabby a écrit :
>
> Someone correct nee if I'm wrong, but you can't, unfortunately. Local
> functions and variables are special in Lua. They're stored as
> numerical IDs internally.
>
> You could use debug.getlocal to iterate over all locals, look for a
> matching name, and call its value, but that would be rather awkward.
> Though you could wrap it in an (inefficient) function.
>
In this case, I would prefer to stay with my current loadstring()
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