Re: Deleting all elements from a table

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 9/13/06, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> 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

Roberto,
I am sorry but I think this loop is linear in time (number of elements
in table 't').
next(t) is equivalent to next(t,nil) and returns the head element of
the table in constant time. The loop itself is linear in time. Overall
it is O(t) -- linear time.
Am I missing something??

--Leo--