Re: What's the best way to determine if a string is a reserved word in a C module?

[Luyu Huang <luyu_huang@...>]

I mean Lua reserved words. In fact, my C module accepts strings from Lua 
and I need to determine if they are reserved words; they are essentially 
TString objects. So if I can get the TString object, I can determine it 
directly, Instead of comparing them with a reserved words list, which is 
costly. I think it might be better for Lua to provide a function such as 
`luaL_isreserved(lua_State *L, int idx)`.

On 3/31/2020 16:00, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Huang Luyu once stated:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to write a C module for Lua, which needs determine if a string is a
> > reserved word.
>    What do you mean be a "reserved word"?  For Lua?  For C?  The best bet is
> to just check a list of words since there aren't that many reserved words in
> either language.  Lua has around 20+ words (depends upon version) and C has
> around 30+ words (again, depends upon version).
>
>    -spc