[Dev-luatex] user_defined whatsits - store function?

[Hans Hagen]

On 9-9-2010 6:29, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
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> While I am at the user_defined whatsit. Is there a way to store a function? I can dump the function to a string, but that doesn't sound too efficient. The manual states that the table is a token list, so I am not trying to do
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> n.value = { function () do whatever I want until the end }

maybe use an indirect method:

list, last= { }, 0

... set ....

last = last + 1
list[last] = fnc
n.value = last

.... whatever ...

after usage
list[n.value] = nil

... use and forget ...

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