Re: 5.2 work3 manual

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <AANLkTikNqtM3VWqR5FqJyNvT5obhe3RYqNjyGLtuGWzS@mail.gmail.com>
you wrote:

> It is not guaranteed to be 0 if t[1] is nil:
>
>  > print(#{nil, 1})
>  2


The business of "holes" seems to founder on the fact that "k is not
a defined key of t" is not equivalent to "t[k] has the value nil".

My thinking was that if t[1] is not defined, then the array part of
t is {} - I had believed that # should depend only on the array
part of a table.

Perhaps nil is being overloaded with too many meanings?
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