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- Subject: Re: Table functions in Lua 5.2 Reference Manual
- From: Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@...>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:26:30 +0200
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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