Problem with Lua 5 table handling

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

The following behaviour seems really rather broken:

dsilvers@salmon:~/dev/betty/aranha$ lua/bin/lua
Lua 5.0 (beta)  Copyright (C) 1994-2002 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio
> t = {}
> t[1] = {}
> t[2] = {}
> t[3] = {}
> table.foreach(t,print)
1       table: 0x80708f0
2       table: 0x8070a70
3       table: 0x8070c18
> table.remove(t,3)
> table.foreach(t,print)
1       table: 0x80708f0
2       table: 0x8070a70
> t[1] = {}
> t[2] = {}
> t[3] = {}
> table.foreach(t,print)
1       table: 0x8071568
2       table: 0x8071690
3       table: 0x8071808
> table.remove(t,3)
> table.foreach(t,print)
1       table: 0x8071568
3       table: 0x8071808
> 

Notice how the second time I do table.remove(t,3) it removes 2 not 3

Any ideas?

D.

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