Re: Call a local function by name.

[David Given <dg@...>]

Laurent Faillie wrote:
[...]
> Because I don't want to pollute my global area : they are used in
> plug-ins for a larger system and I would like to avoid any interference
> b/w each plug-in.

You can always do something like this:

local function func1() ... end
local function func2() ... end
local function func3() ... end

local functable = {
	["func1"] = func1,
	["func2"] = func2,
	["func3"] = func3,
}

local function call_by_name(s)
	local f = functable[s]
	f()
end

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