From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: final thoughts on experiments with lua
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:11:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5797F962-D863-48B1-B528-385C2F7DE2C5@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsCoM=SSYW+YdSS4vd25xPd4m0=tS3zVJiyU0+8k=H8fLA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 2019-01-10 um 10:50 schrieb luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
>> sections = { “1”, “2”, “2a” }
>>
>> words = { [“1”] = { “a”, “b” },
>> [“2a”] = { “c”, “d” } }
>>
>> so I can iterate through ipairs(sections) in sequence and pick up the word lists for each section. In the greater scheme of things, as Hraban pointed out: if there were an “ordered table” structure in Lua, this is precisely what it would do behind the scenes; it would just make it easier for the user.
>>
> the point is that I believe that is also doable in lua...
> maybe could be helpful to have a significative example in python, ton see if we can mimic it in lua ?
The "minimal example" in Python is a collections.OrderedDict. It’s not about ordering the entries (anew), but keeping the order, i.e. retrieving the entries in the same order as you added them. If you iterate over a Python dict or a Lua pairs table, the order can be arbitrary.
Greetlings, Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-10 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-09 19:57 Thomas A. Schmitz
2019-01-09 20:12 ` luigi scarso
2019-01-09 20:38 ` Alan Braslau
2019-01-10 0:09 ` Hans Hagen
2019-01-10 0:08 ` Hans Hagen
2019-01-10 9:27 ` Schmitz Thomas A.
2019-01-10 9:50 ` luigi scarso
2019-01-10 11:11 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2019-01-10 12:09 ` Hans Hagen
2019-01-10 14:53 ` luigi scarso
2019-01-10 7:03 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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