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Adam D. Moss wrote:

Asko Kauppi wrote:


It's deep down in the code, but this is what catches it:

    local n= table.getn(tbl)

    if (n>0 and (not tbl[n])) then  -- BUG TRAPPING in Lua5.1w1 !!!
        --
        print( "TWN:", n, tbl.n )
        dump(tbl)
        error "TRAPPED!"
    end

TWN:    2       nil
(empty)



I'm pretty sure (as was mentioned some time in the past) that
the 'n' index no longer literally exists in the table (thank
goodness!).  getn/setn now keep the table->'n' mapping somewhere
private (or not-so-private -- perhaps the registry -- but at
least this stops tables being implicitly polluted with 'n').


Oh, sorry, I misread your code a bit.  What I mentioned would
explain the 2,nil thing but perhaps not the (n>0 and (not tbl[n]))
thing (unless tbl[n] was boolean false).

--Adam