Re: Virgin tables

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On 12/31/2010 2:39 AM, Greg Falcon wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >>All the trouble people have with the table length function and
> >>the table library, well over 100 posts by now, come down to one
> >>thing, and one thing only:
> >>
> >>    The functions designed for use on tables without holes
> >>    don't actually give an error message when applied to
> >>    tables with holes.
> >
> >I disagree with this assessment.  In Lua, nil isn't truly a
> >first-class object, because it can't be stored in tables at all,
> >either as a key or a value.  The real problem, as I see it, is the
> >widespread refusal to accept this fact.
> >[snip]
> 
> Two thumbs up from me for the whole post. :-) Obliged to give this
> some show of support. Having said that, I'll quickly disappear from
> this thread now...

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-- Roberto