Re: ANN: Serpent: Lua serializer and pretty printer

[Eric Wing <ewmailing@...>]

If you allow a user defined function, don't worry about the caller.
Then it becomes their problem to deal with the hard cases if they need
them. (If they do, then they probably have a specific solution that
will work for their own problem.)



On 6/13/12, Paul K <paulclinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Maybe it is possible to allow an user defined (set of) sort function(s)?
>> e.g. "sortkey=my_sorter_function"
>
> It may be possible to do that, but it's not clear what the caller
> would do in this case either.
>
> It *may* be possible to sort the tables based on their serialized
> *values*, which would be consistent, but the logic for that was
> getting too complex, so I removed it.
>
> I'm considering another option, which is to sort the serialized
> values, but it has its own challenges as the order in which those
> values are produced is always the correct one for deserialization and
> the sorting may break that.
>
> In the end, it may be one of the rare cases not worth worrying too much
> about.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Frank Meier-Dörnberg <frank@md-web.de>
> wrote:
>> Am 13.06.2012 20:12, schrieb Paul K:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, when tables are used as keys, I can only ...
>>
>> Maybe it is possible to allow an user defined (set of) sort function(s)?
>> e.g. "sortkey=my_sorter_function"
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Frank
>>
>
>


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