Re: Small improvement of Automagic Tables behavior

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

2016-11-04 16:53 GMT+02:00 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:
> Hi!
>
> There is a well-known implementation of automagic tables at
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/AutomagicTables
>
> Unfortunately, that implementation behaves weirdly in some situations:
>
> local a = AutomagicTable()
> local x = a.b.c
> local y = a.b.c
> assert(x == y)  -- assertion fails !
>
> local a = AutomagicTable()
> a.pointer = a.array.elem2
> a.array.elem1.n = "one"
> a.array.elem2.n = "two"
> a.array.elem3.n = "three"
> assert(a.pointer.n == "two")  -- assertion fails !
>
> This behavior can be improved by storing weak references to all created
> objects.
> https://gist.github.com/Egor-Skriptunoff/4ae0f2dbda089f368f3df52ef00c7554

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