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Create a proper Table library

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Victor Reis (xalalau)

Instead of "NanosUtils.ShallowCopyTable" we get a proper Table library with ShallowCopy, DeepCopy, Insert, Remove, Has, Count, Sort, Merge, Inherit, Add, Random, Shuffle... Tables are super important and having these features helps a lot.

February 24, 2023

GTNardy

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I am creating the structure for the new NanosTable lib, we can be adding it's methods little by little

GTNardy

Yeah that makes sense.
Usually NanosUtils is where everything goes without when we don't have where to put it.
I would like to have new ones like NanosString and NanosTable too!

Timmy

GTNardy: This is a discussion we had many times, I'm glad someone else brought this to the table haha

Voltaism

Timmy: To the Table haha

(Why not PRing it to the Nanos library ?)

Timmy

Voltaism: > To the Table haha
pun not intended 😅
> Why not PRing it to the Nanos library ?
I did some time ago with NanosString, but it was merged into NanosUtils 
https://github.com/nanos-world/nanos-world-lua-lib/pull/9

GTNardy

Timmy: I didn't want to create a table library for just one method at the time, but when having it architectured to have more we can do it

Timmy

GTNardy: noice

Timmy

GTNardy: About NanosString one downside is that the new methods will not be added to the

string

metatable, and thus will not be accessible from string variables

e.g in some cases it's more convenient to call

str:len()

instead of

string.len(str)

GTNardy

Timmy: That's actually something I think is good. I don't want to change the original tables, even if its more convenient.

Timmy

GTNardy: All good then 🙏

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