Generic Table... kind of

This is probably pretty useless, but hey maybe someone can make something out of it…

This neat little tool allows you to define Lists that hold values of a certain type only. Doesn't sound like much but atleast it looks kind of pretty…

local myList = List : number {
  34;
  35;
  36;
}

As you can see you declare a List by writing:

List : <YourSuperSpecialType> {}

You can pass some initial values to the List by passing a table after the List type.

Another super nice feature is, that you can create your own "types" for your Lists. Lets say you want a List of e.g. Vectors.
That can be done by declaring a table with a __type field. Now if that field is defined to be

__type = "Vector"

these tables will be treated as if they were of type "Vector".
Comes in handy if you're writing some oop code and want to have List of your objects.

Install:
pastebin get 9mJL4rgH

Let me know if this usefull in any way or not ^^

Actually, this is really awesome! I like the syntax a lot, and it feels much better to work with more restricted tables than this "I take everything I can"-type of "table" we have in Lua. I'm trying to get into function programming and this might come in handy when doing some "functional lua" ;)/>

Somehow I was able to forget to explain pretty much anything except for the most basic features… great.
I added a few more helper functions, most of them are simply their table.XXX() equivalent wrapped in another function to make them work with Lists.

Things you can now use:

Spoiler

<yourList>:length() -- returns the length of your list
<yourList>:getType() -- returns the type of the List as a string
<yourList>:remove(Key) -- removes the given key from the List
<yourList>:sort(ComparisonFunc) -- sorts the List using table.sort and passing the comparison function if one is passed as a parameter
<yourList>:concat(Separator,RangeStart,RangeStop) -- concatenates the List to a string

Additionally, if you just want to add a value to the end of the list , you can now use this syntax:

<yourList> = <yourList> + 77

Updated the pastebin link in the main post !

Edit: Just in case anyone was wondering, yes you can make Lists containing Lists. List objects do have a __type field defining them as List objects.