Lists

Roberto Ierusalimschy's List module is available to all robot and levelgen scripts.

To use these functions, you must first include the line: require("list")

TODO: Explain these list functions

function test ()
  local SIZE = 10000
  -- create a list with elements 1..SIZE
  local l1 = List:new()
  for i=1,SIZE do
    l1:pushright(i)
  end
  -- creates a copy of l1
  local l2 = l1:new()
  -- remove each individual item from left side of l2 and
  -- append to right side of l3 (preserving order)
  local l3 = List:new()
  while l2:length() > 0 do
    l3:pushright(l2:popleft())
  end
  -- remove each individual item from right side of l3 and
  -- append to right side of l2 (reversing list)
  while l3:length() > 0 do
    l2:pushright(l3:popright())
  end
  -- reverse l1 in place
  l1:reverse()
  -- compare Li1 and Li2 for equality
  -- and return length of the list
  if not l1:equal(l2) then return nil
  else return l1:length()
  end
end

N = tonumber((arg and arg[1])) or 1
for i=1, N do
  result = test()
end
print(result)