Re: [Feature Request?] __key

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 14/07/16 02:09 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2016-07-14 17:27 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
>
> > (Empty reply so someone sees this. The table vs array threads kill all other
> > threads :/)
> I'm not usually shy to participate but I have not been able to understand
> what __key is supposed to do that lua_setuservalue and its exposure
> in the  debug library can't. Could you explain that from scratch?
To put it simply, it lets you use bigints as table keys as if they were 
plain lua ints or floats. E.g.

local b1 = require("bigint").one
local i = 1
local f = 1.0
local t = {"one"}

print(t[b1], t[i], t[f]) --> one one one
print(type(b1), math.type(i), math.type(f)) --> userdata integer float

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