Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc2) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> My proposal [1] was that table.pack should set __len metamethod
> instead of returning the value or setting "n" field.
> Wouldn't it be less risky ?
> 
> [1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-06/msg01386.html

It is more tricky. We think that 'n' should be something explicit.
(But we may remove the extra return, as it is redundant with the 'n'
field.)

-- Roberto