Re: proplib and the jet age

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Jan Danielsson wrote:
>    I encountered a few minor annoyances, mostly due to my old format
> having a few shortcuts. For instance:
> 
>    myproj.max_elements=64K
>    myproj.max_store=8G
> 
>    ..and in this particular project that syntax happens a lot. As a
> workaround, I added support for passing strings; "64K", etc, and have
> the application automatically treat them as integers. Not very pretty,
> but I doubt it's an issue for most cases/users. And there's also 64*1024
> etc of one prefers it.

which can be written as

local KB = 1024
local MB = KB*KB
local GB = KB*MB

myproj.max_store=8*GB

Local variables will not be visible in the global _G table.

Alex