Re: What is the best way to evaluate a "name"

["Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@...>]

2008/7/24 Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@bezeqint.net>:
> Paul Moore wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> Is there a simpler way that I have missed? Having said that, I use
>> similar code in a couple of places, so maybe I should just capture
>> this as a utility function eval_expr(L, expr).
>
> See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-04/msg00037.html

Thanks. In retrospect, the other suggestions for parsing dotted
expressions myself look at least as hard. I think I'll go with reusing
Lua's expression code.

Paul.