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

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Richard Hundt:

> On 12/11/2010 03:51 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Richard Hundt:
>>
>>> My point is that, although there is a way of creating a sparse table
>>> which works in a numeric for loop which (i.e. the # operator respects
>>> the number of elements the table was constructed with barring trailing
>>> nil's),
>>
>> This is simply not true, it's an artifact of some Lua implementation,
>> in some cases.
>>
>
> This is Lua 5.2 for which there is a canonical implementation nearing
> release readiness. Surely conscious effort went into supporting the
> new table semantics?

I don't think there was a change in 5.2 in this particular area.