Re: table.getn in Lua 5.0.2/3

[Stefan Brantschen <sbr@...>]

Daniel

On 14 Sep 2006, at 12:33, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

> As I understand it, the table.* functions are only really  
> guaranteed to
> work when *NOT* mixed with direct setting/unsetting of values in the
> table.
> If you do directly fiddle with the table then strange things can  
> occur.

I do not understand your point. Isn't Shmuel's code

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

perfectly correct Lua, including the usage of the table lib?

Thanks
- Stefan