regarding tables in tables

[Filion]

In order to avoid polluting the namespace, I have put all my "global" variables inside wotmudmapper. I have also used function wotmudmapper:instertfunction() for the functions i have used.

Now I want to use a queue in order to "save" the movement inside there and pop every command. Though, after reading this I thought I had to use a table inside a table. So some questions have been raised.

a)If I do understand well, I can create a wotmudmapper.queue={} to start a queue.
b)How do i refer to a function for queue? Is the following enough?

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    function wotmudmapper.queue: nameoffunction()

c)

If you use this structure in a strict queue discipline, calling only pushright and popleft, both first and last will increase continually. However, because we represent arrays in Lua with tables, you can index them either from 1 to 20 or from 16,777,216 to 16,777,236. Moreover, because Lua uses double precision to represent numbers, your program can run for two hundred years, doing one million insertions per second, before it has problems with overflows.

Does that mean that I may have to change the values of first and last, if, let's say the queue is empty?

[Delrayne]

You can queue up a function the same way you would a string. As far as the table being empty, and having to change the values, just put in a simple check in your queue function to determine if something is in the queue.

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wotmud.queue = { wotmud:nameoffunction(), "eat herb", wotmud:nameoffunction2(), "smoke pipe"}

function wotmud:queueFunction()
  if (#wotmud.queue == 0) then
    return
  elseif (wotmud.queue > 0) then
    send(wotmud.queue[1])
    table.remove(wotmud.queue, 1)
  else
    cecho("<red>[ERROR:<white> FUNCTION wotmud:queueFunction()!<red>]")
  end
end

This may not be what you are trying to do, its just what I gathered from your post. Hope this helps though.