Re: Variable names

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 4-Aug-04, at 9:51 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:

> I want to implement a function which creates a new table and 
> initializes
> it, e.g.
>
> newarray(test, 100)
>
> Now the C function newarray() should do the following Lua code:
>
> test = {}
> for i=1,100 do test[i] = 0 end

Surely it would be better to use this API:

  test = newarray(100)

That is what return values are for :)

int l_newarray (lua_State *L) {
  int n = luaL_optint(L, 1, 42);
  int i;
  lua_newtable(L);
  for (i = 1; i <= n; ++i) lua_rawseti(L, -1, 0);
  return 1;
}