RE: protect a set in c (non-existing elements)

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Kevin Martin
> Sent: vrijdag 14 februari 2014 15:27
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> Subject: Re: protect a set in c (non-existing elements)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > In Lua I would simply protect a set with something like this;
> 
> I don't understand what this protects against? Are you just looking to
> generate a immediate error if the key doesn't exist?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin

Exactly, in this case the module table contains 20-25 capitalized constants. So if someone using the module has a typo in his code, I want it to throw an error instead of a silent 'nil' value.

Thijs