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- Subject: Re: Removing Dictionary Elements
 
- From: Matthew Percival <matthew@...>
 
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:16:18 +1000
 
	Thanks for the speedy assistance!
> table[key] = nil
	Thats almost too easy! Talk about clean too: it looks a heck of a lot
better than that kludge I had written. Thank you!
> Recursion would undoubtedly lead to cleaner code.
	That's what I thought too.  It would make things more generalised too,
so I could reuse it more readily.
> There is no built-in facility for saving tables; you could search the 
> mailing list archives for various discussions on why there should or 
> should not be one.
	It seems I've touched upon a significant topic in Lua.  I guess I'll
stick with what I have, albeit a little cleaned up, as it works
perfectly for my situation.
	- Matthew Percival