Persistent Tables

local filePath = ".persistence"
function store(sName, stuff)
    local tempTable = {}
    if fs.exists(filePath) then
        local handle = fs.open(filePath, "r")
        local stuff = handle.readAll()
        handle.close()
        tempTable = textutils.unserialize(stuff)
    end
    tempTable[sName] = stuff -- tempTable[sName]: "I'm stuff."
    local handle = fs.open(filePath, "w")
    handle.write(textutils.serialize(stuff))
    handle.close()
end

function pull(sName)
    local tempTable = {}
    if fs.exists(filePath) then
        local handle = fs.open(filePath, "r")
        local stuff = handle.readAll()
        handle.close()
        tempTable = textutils.unserialize(stuff)
    end
    return tempTable
end
persistent = {}
setmetatable(persistent,{
__index = pull, __newindex = store
})