Re: Pass vars value not reference to table.insert

[David Given <dg@...>]

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Jan Schütze wrote:
[...]
> The following pseudo code won't add every 3 rows to the table rows,
> because row is a variable so rows would contain one item, and 3 pointers
> to it.
>             rows={}
>        local row = fetchRow()
>        while (row) do
>            table.insert(rows,row)
>            row = fetchRow()
>        end

The only way you'd end up with the same item three times is if fetchRow()
were somehow returning the same item every time. It's not reusing the same
table to return each item, is it --- can we see the implementation?

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