Re: [Wikitech-l] Looking for advice for structuring data module with redundant entries

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:25 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > So in Lua, as far as I can say, there is no way to express directly > something like `a = {b=1, c=a.b}`. > Well, if your data is read-only you could do `a = { b = 1 }; a.c = a.b`. > Moreover, `a.c =

[Wikitech-l] Looking for advice for structuring data module with redundant entries

Hi, So in Lua, as far as I can say, there is no way to express directly something like `a = {b=1, c=a.b}`. Instead one might use functions, and call the table with the instance method call operator (colon), like `a = {b=1, c=function(s) return s.b end}; a.b == a:c() -- true`. A first minor