Re: table iteration problem

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Oct 17, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Victor Young wrote:

I've considered this method before. It's useful, but when the table has many keys, it will be troublesome and easy to make mistakes. Thanks any way!

You could construct things as:

local t = magic_table()

-- t records the sequence in which keys are first assigned

t.x = 1

t.y = 2

t.a = 3

t.b = 4

for k, v in t:iter() do

print( k, v )

end

The __pairs metamethod in 5.2 (I think) will avoid the problem with stealing the key iter in the above example.

Mark