RE: Lua hash algorithm

["Curt Carpenter" <curtc@...>]

> However, I cannot fathom why anyone would want to use 
> floating point keys in a hash table. Integer indexes and
> string indexes make sense, but what is ` x[1.5] = "foo" ' 
> supposed to express? What languages besides Lua allow you to do that
natively?

> Anyway, to solve the problem with this (IMO) uncommon case, 
> I think conversion from the floating point to a string would 
> be the simplest solution. Perhaps Lua should do this internally?

A memory allocation every time you use a number as an index? No thanks.

Curt