Re: Lua and pointers

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Theodor-Iulian Ciobanu wrote:
> 1) I have a variable whose contents I would like it to be
> modified by a function (would bee foo(&var) in C, with foo
> declared as foo(var_type*)). Can I do this in lua?

The most common way to do it in Lua is to make foo return the modified 
values, e.g.:
    var1, var2 = foo (var1, var2)

(Also, if  var is a table then its contents can be modified inside foo).

> 2) str[n] is not the n-th character of str (when str is of course
> a string). Would adding this to the language not be faster than
> string.sub(str,n,n) or would it stray the lua way? (or is there a
> better way of getting the n-th character from a string that I'm
> missed in the ref manual?

See this thread:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-11/msg00155.html

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Shmuel