Re: prawget etc?

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Friday, October 4, 2013, Dirk Laurie  wrote:
> 2013/10/4 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>
> > It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
>
> >> Next time this annoys me enough, I'll write a little module in C that
> >> provides `prawget` and `prawset`, which stand in the same relationship
> >> to `rawget` and `rawset` as `pcall` stands to `call`.
> >>
> >> Unless someone has already done it?
> >
> > Um ...
> >
> > function prawget(tab,idx)
> >   return pcall(rawget,tab,idx)
> > end
> >
> > print(prawget(0,1))
> > print("done")
> >
> >   Seems simple enough ...
>
> I can't complain, since it is just the sort of reply I also like to give.
> I can't even argue about it, since any argument will then be thrown
> back at me later. So — touché!

Dirk,

You've given us all an excellent example on how to bitch with dignity. 

We are in your debt. 

-Andrew