Re: Making Lua state internal random seed optional?

[Paul K <paul@...>]

Hi Benoit,

>> Sure you can. Your table serialisation code just needs to grab all the keys, sort them, and then write the tables out in sorted order.

> Yes indeed, I think I'll do that first thing tomorrow morning :). Thanks (and to Sean as well) for the tip.

Some serializers support sorting of table keys; for example Serpent
provides alphanumeric sorting and allows users to specify a custom
sort function: https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent#sorting. One of
the reasons to implement this (and to remove address-related data) was
to make the output diff-friendly. There was a lengthy discussion of
natural sort order on the maillist; I captured several implementations
and their results here:
http://notebook.kulchenko.com/algorithms/alphanumeric-natural-sorting-for-humans-in-lua.

Paul.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2014-07-29 17:17 GMT+02:00 Owen Shepherd <owen.shepherd@e43.eu>:
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>> Sure you can. Your table serialisation code just needs to grab all the
>> keys, sort them, and then write the tables out in sorted order.
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>> What's difficult about that?
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> Yes indeed, I think I'll do that first thing tomorrow morning :). Thanks
> (and to Sean as well) for the tip.
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> Benoit.