Re: object addresses in Lua

[Geoff Leyland <geoff_leyland@...>]

On 31/05/2011, at 10:16 PM, Joerg Walter wrote:

> This touches my question regarding table identifiers.
> 
> As I understand it these pointers identify especially tables uniquely.
> 
> So when I have
> 
> g = 
> {
>  y = 1,
>  z = 2
> }
> 
> a = 
> {
>  b = 
>  {
>    w = 200,
>    x = 300,
>    ref = g
>  },
>  v = 100
> }
> 
> I get different pointers for a,b and g. The pointer for ref would hopefully yield the pointer for g?

$ lua
Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> g = { y = 1, z = 2 }
> a = { b = { w = 200, x = 300, ref = g }, v = 100 }
> print(a, a.b, g, a.b.ref)
table: 0x100107270	table: 0x100107590	table: 0x100106a30	table: 0x100106a30

Do you not have a working Lua interpreter?

Cheers,
Geoff