Re: How can I deep-compare 2 Lua tables, which may or may not have tables as keys?

[Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:

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For the archives (and the sharp debugging eyes of lua-l), here's a

version that handles two different [{}] keys as equivalent...

 

The shortcut 

 if avoid_loops[t1] then return avoid_loops[t1] == t2 end

uses == which looks wrong. Here's a test that fails...

> t0 = {1, 2, 3}

> t1 = {1, 2, 3}

> t2 = {1, 2, 3}

> return  table_eq({[t0] = t1, [t1] = t2, [t2] = t1}, {[t0] = t2, [t2] = t1, [t2] = t2})

false

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