My friend's table of local variables seems a bit simpler/straightforward while still being pretty clean?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Church <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:achurch%2Baquaria@achurch.org">achurch+aquaria@achurch.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">>Well even if it's local to the script (not sure that the entire script is<br>
>considered a block or not), that doesn't solve the problem of creating<br>
>multiple instances of one loaded script. (which is what we want, right?)<br>
<br>
</div>Hmm, good point. If you use loadfile() to open the script, it looks<br>
like you get a Lua function back (an anonymous function containing the<br>
script as a block), so each invocation of that function would create new<br>
local variables. I was thinking you could use that function as the main<br>
function of a Lua thread for each entity, but then I guess you'd need to<br>
add some sort of "while ~dead do waitForEvent() end" loop to every<br>
script and change the entire event processing system to send events to<br>
the script event loop rather than calling Lua functions directly, which<br>
sounds like a pain. I guess you could load the file and lua_dump() it<br>
into a memory buffer, which would then be faster to load for subsequent<br>
entities because it wouldn't have to be recompiled again -- but that's<br>
probably a worse hack than what I have right now.<br>
<br>
I dunno, maybe I'm trying to make the code prettier than it needs to be? (:<br>
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