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From: Andre Caldas <andre.em.caldas@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Frozen callback.
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:40:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADVh14WQ-5Di4r-WESnOqRLijZgiLq81u3BFe6Xpib2TrPB2dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506AE018.1050001@wxs.nl>

>>> Why is "document.MyCharacterMess" a string?
>>
>> The sequencers use loadstring() internally (util-seq.lua), so you
>> need to supply the namespace as a string. This happens all over
>> the place with action/callbacks.
>
> more flexible this way (one can redefine, nil or whatever such functions)

It is like a "pointer to a pointer". Or a reference to a reference,
since we do not use pointers in Lua.
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-01 19:11 Andre Caldas
2012-10-01 20:02 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-10-02  0:30   ` Andre Caldas
2012-10-02  8:05     ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-02 11:31       ` Andre Caldas
2012-10-02 12:02         ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-10-02 12:13         ` Philipp Gesang
2012-10-02 12:37           ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-10 19:40             ` Andre Caldas [this message]
2012-10-02 11:41       ` Andre Caldas
2012-10-02 11:54         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-02 12:27         ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-01 20:49 ` Hans Hagen

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