Re: Multiple indexing (was: 'in' keyword today)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I actually have a whole library of `tuple` methods, which I find
> I almost never use, but the name `unpackt` never occurred to me.

As soon as I typed it, I realized it was ugly. How about vindex?

Performance should not be too shabby if done in C, like Renato's
varargs library:

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~maia/lua/vararg/vararg.c

(this is one kind of manipulation which will always be much faster in C)

> 5.3 gets out of work, alpha and beta. For the moment, we're all mixing
> dough for the fancy biscuits.

Absolutely.  Intellectual entertainment and problem-space exploration.