RE: Two indexing methods of a vector. How to ?

["Charles Melice" <3d@...>]

Sorry, I see now that I have not asked the right question.
The question is more "How to index a userdata, and together define methods".

Charles


> -----Message d'origine-----
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> la part de Charles Melice
> Envoyé : lundi 5 janvier 2015 21:36
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> Objet : Two indexing methods of a vector. How to ?
> 
> I defined (with the C API) a Vector object based on full user data.
> 
> 	static Vec4 *Vget(lua_State *L, int i)
> 	{
> 		if (luaL_checkudata(L,i,MYTYPE)==NULL) ERROR(MYTYPE);
> 		return (Vec4*)lua_touserdata(L,i);
> 	}
> 
> Now, I'm interested to be able to index the 'x, y, z, t' coordinates with
> numeric indexes (1,2,3,4). For instance :
> 
> 	local v = Vec4(11,22,33,44)
> 	print(v.y) -- 22
> 	v:normalize()
> 	print(v) -- Vec4(0.27, 0.53, 0.80, 1.07)
> 	print(v[2]) -- 0.53 ???
> 
> 	v[2]=22.22 -- ???
> 	print(v.y) -- 22.22
> 
> I don't see how to do that ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Charles