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From: Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: table assignment in the context lua code
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:41:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e6k9flusrvsj$.dlg@nililand.de> (raw)


font-dum.lua contains the following code snippet:

   local reencodings     = { } 
   fonts.enc.reencodings = reencodings

   local function specialreencode(tfmdata,value)
      local encoding = value and reencodings[value]
      ....
   end



1. Why is the assignment 
    fonts.enc.reencodings = reencodings
and not the other way round?

Similar definitions in the same file use more "logical" looking
assignments like e.g. "local setups  = fonts.protrusions.setups"


2. How does it work? Why is the local table variable "reencodings"
in the function specialreencode able to retrieve values stored later
in fonts.enc.reencodings?

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-09 14:41 Ulrike Fischer [this message]
2011-03-09 15:10 ` Hans Hagen

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