table.getn in Lua 5.0.2/3

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

It seems to not behave in accordance with the Lua 5.0 docs:

  t = {}
  table.insert(t, "a")
  t[1] = nil
  print (table.getn(t))

> 1

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Shmuel