find_non_colliding_position

[darkfrei]

Hi all!

Here is some information: http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... g_position

find_non_colliding_position(name, center, radius, precision) → Position

Why it's impossible to make something like that?

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local position = nil
local name = "crude-oil"
local center = game.player.position
local radius= 10
local precision = 5
local amount = 5000
for i=1,9 do
	position = game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position(name=name, center=center, radius=radius, precision=precision)
	if position then 
		game.player.surface.create_entity({name=name, amount=amount, position=position})
	end
end

By game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position is possible to write:

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position = game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position(name, center, radius, precision)

but not

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position = game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position(name=name, center=center, radius=radius, precision=precision)

By game.player.surface.create_entity it's possible.

[Rseding91]

Because it doesn't take a table but takes the arguments directly? What's not to understand about that?

[darkfrei]

Because it doesn't take a table but takes the arguments directly? What's not to understand about that?

Exactly! Why some function needs one table and another needs arguments? What is the different?

[dandielo]

Seems to me that the "table" accepting functions are there because you don't need to fill all the fields, where for a regular function it forces you to call it with all arguments. I might be wrong on this one

[theRustyKnife]

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Seems to me that the "table" accepting functions are there because you don't need to fill all the fields, where for a regular function it forces you to call it with all arguments. I might be wrong on this one

You are actually wrong, Lua allows you to omit arguments. It's effectively the same as passing nil instead.
However, it depends on the implementation of the function to handle that properly.
You can also pass extra arguments - those will just be ignored.

Also I think in this (the last snippet from the first post):

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position = game.player.surface.find_non_colliding_position(name=name, center=center, radius=radius, precision=precision)

There should be curly braces instead of the normal ones.
It won't work either way, but this wouldn't even be valid Lua code.

Cheers TRK