Re: lists with nil play nice for Lua 5.2

[Ketmar Dark <ketmar@...>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:38:39 -0400
John Belmonte <john@neggie.net> wrote:

> Common ways in which such lists are created include:
> 
>     { 2, nil, 'bar' }  -- literal list with nil
>     { f() }            -- capture function return vals which include
> nil { ... }            -- capture function/chunk args which include
> nil
a strange way, indeed. why not change `nil' to `false'? Lua is
weak-typed, so one can use some unique value (string, for example) to
mark `unidefined, but present' values.