Re: Deleting non-numerical index from table

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

Did you really get "Why am I here?" as output??
--lhf

> Once I have used a non-numerical table index, is it possible to delete the 
> index itself so that it is not returned from a call to next()?
> 
> For example:
> 
> table = {}
> table["index"] = true    -- arbitrary value
> table["index"] = nil    -- delete the value, so shouldn't the index itself 
> be non-existent?
> i = next(table)    -- programmer expects resulting i to be nil
> if(table[i] ~= nil) then
>     print("Why am I here?")
> end
>