Re: The meaning of 'sugar' [Forked from Re: Why do we have ipairs?]

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Tom N Harris <telliamed@whoopdedo.org> wrote:

On Friday, June 13, 2014 09:32:23 AM Philipp Janda wrote:
> There is even a Lua API function[1] that makes this kind of thing easier ...
> > Ross.
>
> Philipp
>
>    [1]: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#luaL_checkoption

At risk of drifting yet further off-topic, does anyone else wish
luaL_checkoption would compare the strings in a more efficient way than strcmp
in a loop? Perhaps registering a table with the options as keys.

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tom <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>

That's what I've been doing for enums. I forgot all about luaL_checkoption, but it seems so silly to use a strcmp() loop when you can use a table.

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