Re: [ANN] loadx v1.0.0

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-10-07 14:43 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
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> On 07/10/15 04:50 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
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>> 2015-10-07 0:53 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
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>>> loadx is a Lua 5.2 and Lua 5.3 library which provides a better `load()`.
>>> It
>>> currently supports:
>>> ...
>>> - You can set ALL the upvalues, not just the first! This, combined with
>>> the
>>> above, makes this library perfect for seriali(s|z)ing and
>>> (de|un)seriali(s|z)ing functions!
>>
>> Maybe loadx could also return a table of upvalues, with names as
>> a list and values as a key-value pair, i.e.
>>
>> f, upvals = loadx(chunk,nil,nil,'foo','bar')
>> -- upvals = {'a','b',a='foo',b='bar'}
>>
> A table of upvalue objects (the ones you get from newupval())?

I did not think of that, no: it's just that lua_setupvalue returns the
function's name for that upvalue, so it is easy to create a table
of actually supplied upvalues keyed by their names. Since the
order may be important, the names are keyed by 1,2,...

This is the table format also used by some XML-to-Lua modules.