lua question: matches[n] shorthand syntax?

[Caled]

Is there any chance that there exists a shorthand syntax for matches[n]?

[Vadi]

Someone else raised this issue too. Compared to zmud/cmud where it's just %n, this is too bulky.

How about m[n]?

[Caled]

That would work for me.

[Vadi]

The problem is now adjusting it, two years later. We'd have to keep both matches[2] and m[2]... hm. I wonder if there's a metatable hack you could do to mirror the values.

[tsuujin]

The problem is now adjusting it, two years later. We'd have to keep both matches[2] and m[2]... hm. I wonder if there's a metatable hack you could do to mirror the values.

Yeah, metatables can certainly be used for this. Here's a bit of code I hacked out which should explain the process fairly well:

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mtTest = mtTest or {}
mtDouble = mtDouble or {}

setmetatable(mtTest,{
	__newindex = function(self,key,value) rawset(self,key,value) mtDouble[key] = value end
})

mtTest["test1"] = "test"
mtTest["test2"] = "test2"
mtTest["testing"] = "again"
display(mtTest)
display(mtDouble)

rawset accesses table data -without- calling metatable information, without it you get stack overflows on trying to add to a table via it's own __newindex function.

[Omit]

After reading anouther post on the forum. It occured to me that you could always put the following at the head of your trigger scripts... given that 'matches' is a Lua table.

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m=matches
--any other code here...

(I have not tested but being that m and matches are global tables... you may only have to do this once.)

[Denarii]

After reading anouther post on the forum. It occured to me that you could always put the following at the head of your trigger scripts... given that 'matches' is a Lua table.

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m=matches
--any other code here...

(I have not tested but being that m and matches are global tables... you may only have to do this once.)

This doesn't work, I believe it's because the matches table is recreated every time an alias/trigger files, and it breaks the reference.

This works:

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m = setmetatable({}, { __index = function(_, key) return _G["matches"][key] end })

[Vadi]

Yeah, it does do that. I wonder if it's the most optimal thing to do now, hm.