[SOLVED]Anonymous Function Scope

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[SOLVED]Anonymous Function Scope

Post by rok »

Yesterday a guy on IRC explained to me why this works

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function templates.text(text)
  tmp = text
  return string.dump(function()
    love.graphics.printf(tmp,40,40,400)
  end)
end
but this doesn't

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function templates.text(text)
  return string.dump(function()
    love.graphics.printf(text,40,40,400)
  end)
end
because of the anonymous function scope.

Is there a way to do it without that stupid temporary variable? It even can not be local so that is another problem (overwriting data). There must be a way :cry:.
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Re: Anonymous Function Scope

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The reason that limitation is there is because there is no good workaround. That said, what are you using string.dump for?
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Re: Anonymous Function Scope

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Oh ok. Changed the code a bit and now I do not need it anymore. I've been using string.dump in pair with loadstring.

Returning the function directly instead of the string representation solved the scope issue too. Double win.
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Re: [SOLVED]Anonymous Function Scope

Post by Xgoff »

yes, whenever possible you should return functions instead of dumping/loading them

for informational purposes: in lua 5.2/5.3 or luajit, it is in fact possible to "fix" upvalue bindings of loaded functions via debug.upvalueid and debug.upvaluejoin, but obviously you should only be doing things like that if you absolutely cannot avoid dumping/loading the function (such as trying to send a function between love threads, since iirc you can't send function objects)
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