Re: SWIG and 0/1 based arrays

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

I don't really know anything about swig, but I would highly recommend
making the Lua interface 1-based as pretty much everything Lua assumes
this.  It's a shame about the disconnect, but that's how things are.

wes

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joey Mukherjee <joey@swri.edu> wrote:
> I use SWIG to expose a few C++ classes to the user.  In the C code, I use
> zero-based arrays (obviously), but in the Lua code that interfaces with the
> C code, I also have to use zero-based arrays.  This seems somewhat unnatural
> for Lua programmers (right?).  I admit I don't program in Lua too much.
>
> Has anyone else had to deal with this issue?  Was it a big deal for your
> users to have both zero/one based arrays in their Lua programs?
>
> Is there a way to make SWIG convert all C++ vector uses to subtract one?  Is
> that even wise?  I'm guess I'm looking on thoughts on whether it is better
> to have all one based arrays with a Lua program, and if so, how do I do this
> easily with SWIG if it is even possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Joey
>
> P.S.  Thanks for the other help on the lua_isfunction and the stack count!
>