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On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, David Given wrote:
> Rob Kendrick wrote:
> [...]
> > There are tricky aspects of cleverer more advanced aspects of each
> > language which are difficult to map onto the other, though.  Syntax is
> > the easy bit.
>
> This is actually something I've been thinking about --- do you have any
> pointers on these issues that I can follow up on?

JavaScript does not index tables in the way that Lua does: the key is
converted to a string before being used. This matters when using tables
or functions as table keys.

Tony.
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