Re: [NTG-context] Working with variables in Lua(TeX)

Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote:

Hello, I am sorry, I am novice in this maillist and in Lua(TeX) too. I dont know if my problem isn't off topic. My inquiry is here: Is it make possible with variables in Lua(TeX) do for similar "hara-kiri" like in Perl or PHP by this example?:

$a="b"; $$a="456"; print $b; # result 456

There is no symbol dereferencing in lua. This is a good thing(tm), in my opinion. If you want trickery like this, you have to resort to loadstring (which is the lua equivalent of eval) Best wishes, Taco