lua multiple assignment
lua
Solution
Nope.
Your first example (multiple assignment) already has clearly defined semantics, so Lua would need an addition operator/keyword/something to indicate a desire for different semantics (repeating the last r-value). It doesn't.
Your second example (chaining together assignments, ala C) requires assignments to be expressions, whereas in Lua they are statements.
The closest you could get would be defining a function that pushes a value onto the stack a bunch of times:
function push(x)
return x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x
end
Then you could say:
a,b,c,d,e,f,g = push(t)
But that's pretty kludgey.
Out of curiosity, why do you need a bunch of different references to the same table in the same scope?
Problem
is there any way of multiple assignment in lua such that the missing values on the right side are not considered as nil ? smth analogous to ``` a,b,c = 1 ``` but getting ``` a = 1, b = 1, c = 1 ``` as result. Unfortunately, ``` a = b = c = 1 ``` doesn't work. I need this because I might have complex tables on the right side and I want to keep it short and simple (without any additional variables).