Re: [Challenge] Smallest table copy

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>]

I doubt you can get an improvement with `load`.

    load"local a=..."

is three characters longer than

    function(a)end

You can cache the prologue in a variable, but two functions is too
little to gain from it:

L="local a,b,c=..."load(L.."")load(L.."")
function(a,b,c)endfunction(a,b)end
—Pierre-Yves


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 08.05.2014 15:47 schröbte Thiago L.:
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>> I wonder if less than 239 chars is possible (maybe with some
>> load()/loadstring() trickery?)
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> Sure. Using Paul's trick I'm currently at 230 bytes (234 if you don't like
> global `next`). But it's based on my original proposal, so you won't like it
> ...
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> But using `load` is an interesting idea (e.g. for avoiding the `function`
> keyword) ...
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> Philipp
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