Re: 'table' as fallback for tables

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Bingo! I'd say an `n` key with an integer value greater than or
> equal to 0, but let's not nitpick. I also think this would have been
> a viable alternative to the sequence concept we now have, because it
> has some useful properties:
> 
> *  [...]

Something that seems to be missing in this discussion is constructors:

   l = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
   print(#l)          --> ?  (no 'l.n'...)

-- Roberto