Re: Handling of variables

[Erik Hougaard <erik@...>]

On 20-01-2014 13:32, Hendrik Werner wrote:
> figured it may have something to do with the fact that "b = a" does 
> not actually create another variable but another reference to the 
> anonymous value a references (that's the way it works, right?) so the 
> implicit definition "local a = a" in my function header also just 
> creates another reference to the same anonymous value thus also 
> changes that value, is that right so far?
Yes, it is the same *value* - so you need to clone (dep clone perhaps) 
if you want to copy the value.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/CopyTable

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