Re: A question about table's length

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:45 AM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
> table.  To implement such functions robustly and generally, we need to
> specify whether values like 2 above are to be considered in the hash
> part or array part, and we need to be careful how we iterate.

Ah, yes, because the array part is (naively) assumed to be between 1
and #t.  Looks like I did not read the famous Fifth Sentence carefully
enough.

So, what ultimately _is_ the array part?  What is the least suprising
definition?