Re: Lua Observations/Questions
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- Subject: Re: Lua Observations/Questions
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 21:05:35 -0300 (EST)
>From lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br Wed Jul 7 20:35:02 1999
>From: Ken Rawlings <krawling@shooter.bluemarble.net>
> I have a quick question on Lua datatypes. What is the preferred method
> for generating and using lists in Lua? Originally I thought that the
> following could be used:
>
> l = { 1, 2, 4, 5 }
>
> However, it appears that Lua doesn't have a method for adding or
> deleting data at an arbitrary position. For instance, how can you
> add '3' to the table above between '1' and '2'? Along the same lines,
> how can you delete the '4'? I've read through the manual to no
> avail. Am I missing something?
Lua 3.2 (to be released in a couple of days) has a new built-in function
tinsert that does this. (You can try it now with 3.2 beta.)
--lhf