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On 14/09/2006, at 8:06 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:


local k= next(t)
while k ~= nil do
 t[k]= nil
 k= next(t)
end


It may be worth remembering that the above loop is quadratic in time.

-- Roberto



So is this (my original proposal) better/faster? ...

for k in pairs (t) do
  t [k] = nil
end -- for

- Nick