On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Vaughan McAlley
<ockegheim@gmail.com> wrote:
2009/2/19 Etan Reisner <deryni@unreliablesource.net>:
> Personally I tend to avoid using table.insert in favor of
> tab[#tab + 1] = item
> or keeping an explicit counter, but that probably doesn't matter much
> except in tight loops.
>
It took me a while to work out why this is popular (apart from
featuring heavily in Programming in Lua). It's because this method
allows access to metamethods, while table.insert doesn't. Am I right?
-Vaughan
