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Am 08.05.2014 17:24 schröbte Pierre-Yves Gérardy:

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
Yes, and we also rely on upvalues, so we would need the `function` keyword in there after all ... 
But for a moment it was a good idea.


—Pierre-Yves


Philipp





On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

Am 08.05.2014 15:47 schröbte Thiago L.:



I wonder if less than 239 chars is possible (maybe with some
load()/loadstring() trickery?)



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
...

But using `load` is an interesting idea (e.g. for avoiding the `function`
keyword) ...

Philipp