Re: Some small requests for the next release

[Wim Couwenberg <w.couwenberg@...>]

> > > if not next(t) then ... end

> > if next(t) == nil then ... end

> I think those two statements work the same.
> (I'm open to correction..)

No, they're different.  As Mike points out: false is a valid key value, 
so iteration would stop at the "first" (there's no strict ordering) such 
key in a table.

Try this:

	t = { [false] = "aap" }

	if not next(t) then print "test1: empty!" end
	if next(t) == nil then print "test2: empty!" end

> Even so, I think they will only work till the next nil element in the table,

The point was to check for an empty table.  Anyway, next will iterate 
over all pairs.  In fact:

	for k, v in pairs(t) do ... end

is completely equivalent with:

	for k, v in next, t do ... end

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Wim