Re: luajit: any way to make array initialization zero-based?

[Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev <malkia@...>]

LuaJIT FFI handles "C" types, and in "C" arrays start from 0.

The solution is to let your users be aware of this from the start.
No better solution than this.

On 6/13/2012 3:46 PM, Chris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Chris<coderight@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > I suppose something to make the
> > FFI arrays one-based would work just as well.
>
> After looking at the Lua libraries some more I think making Lua
> zero-based might be too problematic.  If that's the case then making
> LuaJIT's FFI interface one-based would be better.  So the ctype[1]
> element would actually be the array[0] at the C level.  I believe a
> while ago I looked into trying to make a change like that to LuaJIT
> but it wasn't obvious how to do it.
>
> CR