Re: 5.2 work3 manual

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, T T wrote:
> On 7 June 2010 02:53, Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:
> >
> > can you suggest such a definition that also:
> > - is useful for tables without holes
> > - is quick to compute
> > - has none or minimal memory requirements.
> > - has none or minimal overhead on field assignment
>
> The one given in the starting message of this thread seems to be the
> most suitable from the "usefulness" POV:
>
> "The length of a table t is defined to be the least non-negative
> integer n such that t[n+1] is nil and t[m] is non-nil for any
> positive integer m less than n+1."?

That fails the second or fourth requirement, as we have been discussing.

Tony.
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