E2table Class

[Denneisk]

Creates an E2Table class because people (myself included) keep creating E2Tables wrong.

Homebrewed yet another E2 type inferrer because I didn't want to look in E2Lib for one.

Implements most of #2817

Fixes #3410

I had most of this code just lying around since late-2023 and... blehhh :PP

[Astralcircle]

This probably can break compact with some E2 extensions, what do you think about it?

[Denneisk]

Everything's backwards-compatible. That function still exists and will create a normal empty table object. I just swapped the references for minor performance reasons and housekeeping.

Normal E2 table building (setting every part manually) works by default since the underlying table object is unchanged.

wire/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/core/e2lib.lua

Lines 465 to 472 in dea24f8

	--- Deprecated. Creates an empty `E2Table`. Use `E2Lib.E2Table` or `E2Lib.E2Table.New` instead.
	---@see E2Table
	---@deprecated
	local function newE2Table_compat()
	return newE2Table()
	end
	E2Lib.newE2Table = newE2Table_compat -- Deprecated, backwards compat

[Denneisk]

Agh but I'd have to move this into WireLib since that depends on E2 tables...

[Astralcircle]

Everything's backwards-compatible. That function still exists and will create a normal empty table object. I just swapped the references for minor performance reasons and housekeeping.

Normal E2 table building (setting every part manually) works by default since the underlying table object is unchanged.

wire/lua/entities/gmod_wire_expression2/core/e2lib.lua

Lines 465 to 472 in dea24f8

	--- Deprecated. Creates an empty `E2Table`. Use `E2Lib.E2Table` or `E2Lib.E2Table.New` instead.
	---@see E2Table
	---@deprecated
	local function newE2Table_compat()
	return newE2Table()
	end
	E2Lib.newE2Table = newE2Table_compat -- Deprecated, backwards compat

Oops, didn't notice

[Astralcircle]

Is this still in progress?

[Denneisk]

Nobody clarified if I should move this from E2Lib to WireLib, so I'll just make that decision myself and move it there myself.