From 53b97cc350b4807b2ba541c99d6614c9d916f174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:16:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixed vararg usage for lua 5.1/5.2. Fixes #1

---
 date.lua | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/date.lua b/date.lua
index 7910a62..f6855de 100644
--- a/date.lua
+++ b/date.lua
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
   local math     = math
   local os       = os
   local unpack   = unpack or table.unpack
+  local pack     = table.pack or function(...) return { n = select('#', ...), ... } end
   local setmetatable = setmetatable
   local getmetatable = getmetatable
 --[[ EXTRA FUNCTIONS ]]--
@@ -403,6 +404,7 @@
   end
 --#end -- not DATE_OBJECT_AFX
   local function date_from(...)
+    local arg = pack(...)
     local y, m, d = fix(arg[1]), getmontharg(arg[2]), fix(arg[3])
     local h, r, s, t = tonumber(arg[4] or 0), tonumber(arg[5] or 0), tonumber(arg[6] or 0), tonumber(arg[7] or 0)
     if y and m and d and h and r and s and t then
@@ -700,9 +702,9 @@
   end
 
   function date:__call(...)
-    local n = arg.n
-    if n  > 1 then return (date_from(unpack(arg)))
-    elseif n == 0 then return (date_getdobj(false))
+    local arg = pack(...)
+    if arg.n  > 1 then return (date_from(...))
+    elseif arg.n == 0 then return (date_getdobj(false))
     else local o, r = date_getdobj(arg[1]);  return r and o:copy() or o end
   end