Re: Implementing data structures with closures and coroutines

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

On 19/07/16 06:06 PM, Soni L. wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to implement data structures using nothing but closures and 
> coroutines, including setmetatable (or, in this project, 
> setmetaclosure) and getmetatable (or, in this project, 
> getmetaclosure). These would be wrappers around the stdlib's 
> setmetatable and getmetatable.
>
> Combining varargs and coroutines makes efficient stacks that are very 
> fast for push/pop operations, but very slow for other operations, thus 
> they are unsuitable as a general-purpose data structure.
>
> How can I make general-purpose data structures without tables?
Clarification: This isn't a serious project, it's something I wanna do 
because I can.

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