Earlier iterations of my notes had tables represented as doors (OneNote), or windows (Trello), instead of containers- the thought being that I would go into a table to index it.
Revisiting this idea today, though, this seems needlessly abstruse (the motivation for making them such portentous objects stemmed from my thinking that so much of Lua I write happens within the context of tables that making them anything less would be to overlook their importance). It's better to just make them tables with drawers as I'm writing them here.
Notes from OneNote
Tables: a door to a room with a "table" with a supermarket-type scanner on it and a Monsters, Inc.-esque rail / airport baggage belt (imagine the other side looks like Toy Story 2) that the value is retrieved with when a value is swiped
When walking into a room, the door vanishes when closed (you know, into the white) and the only way out is a fireman's pole that takes me back to the chair.
Appearance:
Has a metal placard on each door with its address (not the 0x part) (the edges of the placard are { }-shaped)
Alternately, the {} are on the knob/knocker
Has a hook for a metatable (a table's metatable is a door on a string hung on this hook)
Scanner has [ ] pattern on it
Table's legs are (it's one of those feet-and-a-stalk tables) intersected curly braces
Pros of tables-as-doors:
Everything under Appearance
Cons of tables-as-doors:
Makes the Alice-in-Wonderland sizes-are-completely-arbitrary-ness of values a bit too obvious (since I have to be able to both carry and walk through doors).
makes tables kind of weird to represent ("so he goes through the door while holding the door, swipes that door on the table, and it brings him a door? Wait- he can carry the same door he came through? WTF IS GOING ON")
Description from Trello: "Tables are... windows?"
This kind of explains how tables work. Kind of.
Tables have their address engraved on them to identify them, and may be visually different (ie. represented as different color window frames made of different woods).
Earlier iterations of my notes had tables represented as doors (OneNote), or windows (Trello), instead of containers- the thought being that I would go into a table to index it.
Revisiting this idea today, though, this seems needlessly abstruse (the motivation for making them such portentous objects stemmed from my thinking that so much of Lua I write happens within the context of tables that making them anything less would be to overlook their importance). It's better to just make them tables with drawers as I'm writing them here.
Notes from OneNote
Description from Trello: "Tables are... windows?"