Re: How do I get two dimensional array access notation for my (matrix) userdata?

["E. Wing" <ewmailing@...>]

On 7/28/08, Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:32:54PM +0200, Jerome Vuarand wrote:
>> By the way, now that I think about it, it could be nice to have a
>> syntactic sugar that would transform [x, y] into [{x, y}].
>
> It would be highly surprising, because {1,2} and {1,2} are
> different[1], so indexing with them would give a different cell each
> time.
>
>   OG.
>
> [1] Different tables, even if they have the same contents, hence
> different from an indexing point of view.

Sorry, now I'm really confused:
{1,2} and {1,2} look visually identical to me.

And what is [1,2]? Does that have any meaning in Lua? (When I tried
it, I thought I got a syntax error.)

Thanks,
Eric