2011/6/14 Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it
<mailto:lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it>>
On 14/06/2011 5.41, Xavier Wang wrote:
And you will find in Lua 5.2 beta, the meaning of # operator is
changed.
Really? I thought only the description in the manual was changed,
supposedly to be clearer.
Or do you mean the fact that now # respect the __len metamethod?
Am I missing something?
in beta:
The length of a table |t| is only defined if the table is a /sequence/,
that is, all its numeric keys comprise the set /{1..n}/ for some integer
/n/. In that case, /n/ is its length. Note that a table like
in 5.1.4:
The length of a table |t| is defined to be any integer index |n| such
that |t[n]| is not *nil* and |t[n+1]| is *nil*; moreover, if |t[1]| is
*nil*, |n| can be zero. For a regular array, with non-nil values from 1
to a given |n|, its length is exactly that |n|, the index of its last
value. If the array has "holes" (that is, *nil* values between other
non-nil values), then |#t| can be any of the indices that directly
precedes a *nil* value (that is, it may consider any such *nil* value as
the end of the array).
it means: this table:
local t = {1, 2, nil, 4}
in lua5.1.4, #t will be 2 or 4, but in lua5.2, #t is undefined.
