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11 – Data Structures

Tables in Lua are not a data structure; they are the data structure. All structures that other languages offer---arrays, records, lists, queues, sets---are represented with tables in Lua. More to the point, tables implement all these structures efficiently.

In traditional languages, such as C and Pascal, we implement most data structures with arrays and lists (where lists = records + pointers). Although we can implement arrays and lists using Lua tables (and sometimes we do that), tables are more powerful than arrays and lists; many algorithms are simplified to the point of triviality with the use of tables. For instance, you seldom write a search in Lua, because tables offer direct access to any type.

It takes a while to learn how to use tables efficiently. Here, we will show how you can implement typical data structures with tables and will provide some examples of their use. We will start with arrays and lists, not because we need them for the other structures, but because most programmers are already familiar with them. We have already seen the basics of this material in our chapters about the language, but I will repeat it here for completeness.

Programming in Lua (first edition)
Part II. Tables and Objects 
Chapter 11. Data Structures
https://www.lua.org/pil/11.html


nietzsche, the gay science, 329
Leisure and idleness. - There is something of the American Indian,
something of the savagery peculiar to the Indian blood, in the way the
Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the
true vice of the new world - is already starting to spread to old Europe,
making it savage and covering it with a most odd mindlessness. Already
one is ashamed of keeping still; long reflection almost gives people a bad
conscience. One thinks with a watch in hand, as one eats lunch with an
eye on the financial pages - one lives like someone who might always
'miss out on something'. 'Rather do anything than nothing' - even this
principle is a cord to strangle all culture and all higher taste. Just as all
forms are visibly being destroyed by the haste of the workers, so, too, is
the feeling for form itself, the ear and eye for the melody of movements.
The proof of this lies in the crude obviousness which is universally
demanded in all situations in which people want for once to be honest
with others - in their relations with friends, women, relatives, children,
teachers, students, leaders, and princes: one no longer has time and
energy for ceremony, for civility with detours, for esprit in conversation,
and in general for any otium.2o For life in a hunt for profit constantly
forces people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in
continual pretence or out-smarting or forestalling others: the true virtue
today is doing something in less time than someone else. And thus
hours in which honesty is allowed are rare; during them, however, one is
tired and wants not only to 'let oneself go' but also to lay oneself down
and stretch oneself out unceremoniously to one's full length and breadth.
This is the way people now write letters, the style and spirit of which
will always be the true 'sign of the times'. If sociability and the arts still
offer any delight, it is the kind of delight that overworked slaves make
for themselves. How frugal our educated and uned…

get yourself a girl who buys nitro so she can send you longer voice messages

probably not what you have in mind but pds.moe exists :3 pdsls.dev/pds.moe


scrolling through my gallery and came across this
annie pics from root, saved to my photos on january 8, 00:02
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little did i know i would become very familiar with that room


typed this then took a nap
willow 16:24
yes, ethics is not about discursive grounding. but the speech-act of invoking such truths in a discursive context may nonetheless be ethically dubious


you're totally right i completely missed that tysm ^-^ updated now

<3 the anticipation is overwhelming

autocorrect tried to make me say this

the extent to which i am less than forthright is underestimated
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i don’t want to be but i appreciate the past me’s that have been, even if i don’t like them very much

drowning in worthless words
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are you not ashamed of that corpse in your mouth?

adorno :) my alt text usually has citations


i’m oscillating again and i don’t like the people trying to hold me still
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i need you to see double through a kaleidoscope with me
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or maybe it’s enough to hold my hand and let me cry on you for a bit while i make myself dizzy


it’s true, no aura

it’s also just better because you’re all annoying when i speak
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kaseyposting is the vibe today


you mentioned it briefly hehe

unrelated but i love “followed by demi”
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“the thesis of this paradox leads to destruction, a loveless disregard for things which necessarily turns against people too; and the antithesis, no sooner uttered, is an ideology for those wishing with a bad conscience to keep what they have.”
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one of the reasons i hold my tongue on the subject, the utterance itself is deleterious
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although in your case specifically you have more justification given your other philosophical commitments

what is most important to me is not purity and absolute consistency in action, partly because i don’t see this as possible or desirable in general, but also because with veganism specifically
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it is exceptionally challenging to root out consumption of any commodity produced with animal exploitation anywhere in its extensive supply chain, and there are vanishingly small returns from doing so with perfection, both in terms of individual and habitual action.
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i have a lot of thoughts but it’s one of the subjects i’m the most reserved about, and i don’t really see that changing any time soon.

lolll cute, i appreciate the accommodation :)

it felt necessary to have one less thing to worry about 😭

i’m more loose with it nowadays, particularly when away from home, but ~90% of the time yea