On 16-9-2012 19:17, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hi all,I can’t explain the following behavior of the .tuc writer. When passed a nested hash, context fails on the second pass if the array part of the first nesting depth is empty: ······································································· %% the commented lines work \startluacode job.variables.tobesaved.foo = { bar = { } } -- job.variables.tobesaved.foo = { "works now", bar = { } } -- job.variables.tobesaved.foo = { bar = "works too" } \stopluacode \starttext foo \stoptext ······································································· I get this error: ······································································· ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cldf-ini.lua:410: no string to print stack traceback: [C]: in function 'flush' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cldf-ini.lua:410: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cldf-ini.lua:360> (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-uti.lua:112: in function 'initializer' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-uti.lua:200: in function 'load' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-uti.lua:66: in function 'initialize' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. system > tex > error on line 1 in file /home/phg/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv: LuaTeX error ... ······································································· Bug?
no, feature. job variables are just key/values and accessible at the tex end (you store 'works too' in 'bar')
if you want arbitrary data to be stores you need to used datasets, as explained in
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