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On Sunday 05 March 2006 23:39, D Burgess wrote:
> I think the behaviour is  dangerous.
>
> > =#{nil,2}

Unexpected, yes, but you are *not allowed* to put nils into an array and 
expect it to work as an array --- as soon as you do so, you stop being able 
to reliably use the array operators and have to use the fully-fledged table 
operators instead.

I wonder if it would be possible to have a debug option that could check for 
this kind of thing? So that, say, tables with an empty hash part and a 
non-empty array part produced a diagnostic if you tried to write a nil into 
them? It would make it a little more obvious what was going on.

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