Re: The "i" in "ipairs" (was re: Newbie: ipairs() for tables with non integer keys)

[roberto@... (Roberto Ierusalimschy)]

> > In Fortran, variables starting with
> > letters from "i" to "q" (or "o"?) were integers by default
> 
> Neither starting at "i" nor ending at "q" or "o" :)
> 
> "j" .. "l" were integer by default.

The end was wrong (I knew I didn't know it), but the start is correct:

  If the first character is I, J, K, L, M or N, the variable is integer

Otherwise DO10I would have been DO10J :)

-- Roberto