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

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Tiago Salmito <tiago@salmito.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Thijs Schreijer
>> <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org]
>> >> On
>> >> Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
>> >> Sent: vrijdag 14 februari 2014 16:42
>> >> To: Lua mailing list
>> >> Subject: Re: protect a set in c (non-existing elements)
>> >>
>> >> If you want to include Lua code in your C code, try "xxd -i".
>> >
>> > I like brief answers, but this one was too brief for me :) I have no
>> > clue what you mean... can you provide some more details?
>> >
>>
>> xxd is a hexdump program, and the -i parameter of it makes it output C
>> code defining the data as an array.
>>
>> /s/ Adam
>>
>
> Using a global variable just to pass a parameter to a chunk seems a little
> clumsy, why not do:
>
> char *chunk =
> "local parameter=(...) "
> "print(parameter) "
> "return {sometable=true}";
>
> LUAMOD_API int luaopen_xtable (lua_State *L) {  luaL_loadstring(L, chunk);
>   luaL_loadstring(L, chunk);
>   lua_pushliteral(L,"I am a parameter");
>   lua_call(L,1,1);
>   return 1;
> }
>

That's EXACTLY what was being suggested, except xxd -i formats it for
you so you can maintain it as a Lua script and not worry about having
to escape quotes and such.

/s/ Adam