Re: Proposal for table length operator

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 14/12/2010 9.39, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> But now table.remove(a,3) makes #a=999?  What sort of logic is that?

The logic I read in Keith's proposal is:

"by assigning a value to an integer index i higher than the current #t, 
I declare this to be array ranging from 1 to i. Inside this array, nil 
is a value like any other".

The second rule is a logic consequence; it would be the only available 
way to shorten the array.

In a broad sense, Mark's proposal is along the same line, even if it 
uses a completely different approach: both are ways to 'declare' an 
array so that it could contain nil values.

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  Enrico