Re: Making Lua state internal random seed optional?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Benoit Germain once stated:
> Unfortunately I can't sort something like this (my data is more complex
> than that of course, I have 600 lines of simular Lua code per settings
> file):
> 
>                 ["pushForceCurve"] =
>                 {
>                     ["param1"] = -4,
>                     ["param3"] = 0.502515,
>                     ["param2"] = 2
>                     ["centerOfMassOffset"] =
>                     {
>                        ["x"] = 0,
>                        ["y"] = 0
>                     },
>                 },

  Can you not change the serialization code to sort the keys if it's dumping
a table?  Something like:

	function serialize(name,item)
	  ... 

	  if type(item) == 'table' then
	    local keys = {}
	    
            for name in pairs(items) do
	      table.insert(keys,name)
	    end
	    
            -- -------------------------------------------------------------
	    -- if all the keys are of a single type (strings, numbers) then
	    -- this should be okay.  If the keys are of mixed types, then
	    -- you will probably have to define a sort function that will
	    -- reliably "sort" the mixed keys.
	    -- -------------------------------------------------------------

            table.sort(keys)
	    
            for _,name in ipairs(keys) do
	      serialize(name,item[name])
	    end
	  end

	  ...

	end

  -spc