Re: use of gettop to change functionality

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> [...] This is why I advocated having
>> table.pack accept a table argument...
>
> The problem is that this argument cannot be optional, and the use of
> table.pack({}, ...) is not as good as the original version, as the
> table is created with size 0 in this case.
>
> Maybe 'table.pack(nil, ...)' could mean 'create your own table', but
> that is ugly...

Maybe it's ugly but it would be far more beautiful than the
workarounds using select.

Maybe make a different function like table.append(t, ...)?

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- Patrick Donnelly