Re: variable names from variables?

[Vaughan McAlley <vaughan@...>]

On 3 February 2011 00:48, Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Patrick Mc(avery
> <spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
>>
>> This code:
>>
>> for i = 10, 1 do
>> local  value .. i = {}
>> end
>>
>>
>> does not work, I am assuming it's because variables do not have types only
>> values do?
>>
>> Is there someway to automatically generate variable names?
>>
>
> It's not entirely clear what you want to do. You can create new global
> variables via _G. But why would you want to create local ones that way, why
> not simply use a table? I'd be interested to hear the use case.
>
> Also, I think you meant to write "for i = 10, 1, -1 do".
>
> Robby
>
>

Yes, the VM doesn’t use names for local variables, just register
numbers. Globals are a different matter:

for i = 1, 10 do
   G["value" .. i] = {} -- G["value1"] is the same as the global value1
end

print(value6)
=> table: 0x62e820

Vaughan