Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) now available

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

On 12/11/2010 04:18 PM, Eric Man wrote:
> Programmatically achieving the same thing.
>
> for i=1, 3, 1 do
> if t == 2 then
> t[i] = nil
> else
> t[i] = i
> end
> end

Nope.

Lua 5.2.0 (alpha)  Copyright (C) 1994-2010 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> local t = { }; t[1] = 1; t[3] = 3; print(#t)
1
> local t = {1, nil, 3}; print(#t)
3
>

> On 11/12/2010, at 5:38 PM, Richard Hundt wrote:
>
> > On 11/16/2010 02:15 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> > > This release candidate will be the alpha version if no glitches are
> > > found
> > > in the next 10 days or so.
> >
> > One thing I've noticed is that although one can create a sparse table
> > using literal syntax:
> >
> > local t = { 1, nil, 3 }
> >
> > there doesn't seem to be a programmatic way of achieving the same
> > thing. Would it be possible to add support for:
> >
> > local t = { }
> > table.insert(t, 1)
> > table.insert(t, nil)
> > table.insert(t, 3)
> >
> > and have it do the same thing?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Richard