Re: Wording in sequence definition [Was: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1)]

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 16/06/2011 18.11, HyperHacker wrote:
> There has been talk earlier on the list of renaming the standard
> library "table" to "array" since all of its functions deal with
> arrays. Perhaps 5.2 would be a good time to introduce this idea? You
> could keep table=array for compatibility, and drop "table" a few
> versions later.

I don't think it is a good idea, IMHO, because things may change in the 
future, and still now there is table.pack, which is expressly designed 
to cope with non-arrays.