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Then, returning index seems the most consistent. table.remove takes index and returns value, so table.insert can take value and return index.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: about table.insert return value (==nil)

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Ico <lua@zevv.nl> wrote:
> I guess the other 'logical' behaviour would be to return the newly
> inserted element instead of the table:
>
> thing = table.insert(sometable, new_thing())
>
> Maybe neither is implemented because they're both equaly logical ?

I'd say that returning the item being inserted is at least consistent
with table.remove, which returns the removed item.

Of course, one can always write a wrapper around table.insert to
return anything desired.