Re: Suggestion: Deprecate "Attempt to index a nil value" error; instead, return nil or create table

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2020-02-28 10:05 p.m., Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 12:59 AM Anton Jordaan wrote:
>
>     If I want to access the value of t[a][b][c][d][e]
>
>     I suggest that it would be more useful -- and more consistent --
>     if the
>     "Attempt to index a nil value" error is deprecated and, instead, the
>     indexing of undefined variables does the following:
>
>     When reading: simply return nil.
>
>
>
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2017-02/msg00308.html
> See solution #3
>
>
>     When writing: automatically assign a single-entry table to each
>     undefined variable, with the given index the sole entry.
>
>
> Creating a table would better be explicit.

mktable -p (table, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, ...).with = value

(this is valid lua fwiw, but good luck making it work :v)