Re: Lua, LuaJIT2 and differences with the length operator

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>
> And how exactly I am supposed to do this job? E.g., how can I test
> that an array  t coming my way from someone else's library has no
> holes?

Two options:

1: Don't bother. It's the caller's responsibility to obey your API
requirements.

2: Give your tables a metatable that keeps track of the invariants you
require, if they don't match the ones provided by Lua.

Tony.
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