pico8-missing-builtins

You miss built-in lua functions such as ipairs or getmetatable in pico-8? Well, fear no more.

Currently supported Lua "built-in" functions

• getmetatable
• setmetatable
• rawget
• unpack
• ipairs
• table.pack
• table.unpack as an alias to unpack
• table.insert
• table.remove
• table.sort

Tested to imitate their counterparts

Travis-CI is set to test missing.lua against test.lua, which compares results of this library functions with the built-in ones. Well, tests may be incomplete, so do not hesitate to flag a bug to the issue tracker if something goes wrong.

How to use

Heads up to the latest release. Then, there's two options:

• Either you download missing.lua then copy the file contents into your .p8 project file, preferably before the rest of your code; or
• you load missing.p8 in pico-8 to test it out first.

About this license

This library is under creative commons license CC4-BY-NC-SA. See LICENSE.md. It's the same license as the optional one on Lexaloffle's website if you choose to publish a cart.

So, if you happen to publish a cart using this library, it would be nice if you mention it.

Thanks

To Lexaloffle, which this library would not exist without pico-8.

Changes

0.2

• Add some table functions.
  • table.pack
  • table.unpack as an alias to unpack
  • table.insert
  • table.remove
  • table.sort
• Refactor ipairs to make it return an iter function, as the native one does.

0.1

• Add
  • getmetatable
  • setmetatable
  • rawget
  • unpack
  • ipairs