Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 4.1 (work4)

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 07:34  AM, RLake@oxfam.org.uk wrote:
> Ooooh, this is so *almost* what I want. Can't we please, please have a 
> next
> tagmethod to go with it? It would be soooo simple... (Yes, I know I can
> write for k, v in metatable(object).next do ..., but that means that I 
> need
> to either write that always or know whether or not object is a regular
> table; that is not good for code maintainability.)

A getn() tagmethod would be really nice too. Basically, it would be nice 
to have userdata capable of replacing any value in Lua(particularly a 
table value). This way userdata for a  database (like tdbm) can replace 
a table or a userdata that handles arbitrary length numbers could 
replace a number, etc.

Steve