Re: Direct access to key/value table items?

[Peter Shook <pshook@...>]

Ando Sonenblick wrote:
> > How to find the key for a table value?  Since Lua doesn't keep this
> > information in the table, you must either search the table, or build
> > another table with the reverse mapping of values to keys.
>  
> Another thing: you mention that "Lua doesn't keep this information in the
> table".  It doesn¹t ?   Now THAT seems odd.  Where does it keep it?

No. Nowhere.  ;)

What I meant by this is there is no pointer from the value to the key, 
and no way to find the value in the table without searching the table.

- Peter