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- Subject: Re: Factory function, nested tables, modules, and environment
- From: Chris Emerson <chris-lua@...>
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 21:13:52 +0000
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 01:21:41PM -0500, Marc Lepage wrote:
[...]
> ----- BEGIN MODULE -----
> tree = node { node {}, node { node {} } }
> ----- END MODULE -----
>
> So far so good, that is semantically what I want. But I'd like to make the
> syntax simpler, something like:
>
> ----- BEGIN MODULE -----
> node {}
> node { node {} }
> ----- END MODULE -----
>
> where the root level mod.tree node is implicitly made, and the top level
> nodes in the module implicitly add themselves as children to the root level
> node.
You could have all nodes add themselves to the top level, but also have
them remove their children from it.
Chris
