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tomaka / hlua

Rust library to interface with Lua
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Implement Push for LuaTable #175

Open linkmauve opened 6 years ago

linkmauve commented 6 years ago

It’s currently impossible to push a LuaTable value on the stack, which makes it impossible to e.g. return a table from a module, to expose its API publicly in its namespace.

tpdickso commented 6 years ago

A LuaTable is a borrowed table from a lua context; in particular, borrowing a table requires AsMutLua, because reading and writing values from the table requires manipulating the lua stack. As long as the lua context is borrowed, it isn't guaranteed to be in a consistent state for other operations to be performed. Thus, it isn't actually possible to Push while you have a LuaTable borrowed. A solution might have to take a different form.