Re: Table functions in Lua 5.2 Reference Manual

[Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@...>]

Hi,

I wrote:

> 4. Is There really need for table.pack? As far as I understand, this
> both are equivalent: [...] To clarify, it would be helpful to give
> the equivalence in the manual.

Peter Cawley corrected the equivalence:

> function pack(...)
>   return {n = select('#',...),...}
> end

So it would be helpful to give this equivalence in the manual.

But what about my other issues in section 6.5? I wrote:

> 1. What are "most functions" out of six?
> 2. Please add "(see §3.4.6)." at the end of the section.
> 3. It is still not clear how the table methods work if you
> override the length operator with a __len metamethod.

Especially a clarification for the third issue would be helpful.

Jakob

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