RE: length operator [was: table insertion]

["Nick Trout" <nick@...>]

> My opinion is that all proposed operators to get the length of a table
are
> too cryptic to be used with a language with an intuitive syntax as
Lua. A
> more intuitive length operator, at least for me, is |t|. Of course |s|
> could also be used to get the length of a string.

Why do we need a length operator? And anyway, how do you determine the
length of a table? It's implementation specific. Do you count the number
of key-value pairs, the highest numeric key, the number of numeric keys
etc.?

Look at the getn docs etc.

Nick