Re: oops, was strings with length 0 "disappear" in table

[Bas Groothedde <lua@...>]

> Internally, Lua adds an extra zero byte at the end of any string (so
> also for  the empty string), but this is only to simplify interfacing
> with C host code. Lua by itself never use that zero terminating byte
> nor count it in the length ; it stores the length of a string together
> with the pointer and the hash value.

I was more or less insinuating that even without data, an empty string
isn't really weird at all.