Re: Holes

[Henning Diedrich <hd2010@...>]

On 12/16/10 8:14 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:

Conclusions:

1. No example based on demonstrating capricious behaviour of the length 
    operator or a function from the table library when applied to an 
    array with holes proves anything more than that an attempt has been 
    made to do something Roberto has specifically warned against.
2. All these brilliant suggestions can be implemented totally within
    Lua itself without changing the specification of the language.

Yeah but, even if it is demonstrably perfectly defensible and air tight as is,
there are people who feel a different behavior would be fitting Lua's elegance
better, be more intuitive, less error prone, require less deeper level
understanding to program swiftly on the higher level. To me it seems less
personally motivated than you judge it.

Make it "Could Lua benefit from a more useful, or maybe 'safe', behavior of #t for holy ts?"

Henning