Re: 5.2 work3 manual

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <F2E337EDDE894E7DAE85F2C348CE80B8@Mania> you wrote:

> The original meaning is correct, as for the table you describe #t may indeed
> be 2. Or it may be 0. It may differ between implementations, and is even
> allowed to differ between executions of the same line of code.
>
> This is the well known "tables with holes" problem, where to keep Lua
> efficient a solution has been chosen which makes the # operator fairly
> unusable on tables with nils in them.

Thanks for your clarification. I had not realized that # was not well
defined, but I can appreciate that it might be inefficient to make it
so.

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