Re: Indexing a table with nil returns nil?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 05/04/2012 16.31, Dimitris Papavasiliou wrote:
> It doesn't bother me really and I imagine
> it can be useful at times, [...]

It can be useful, for example, to have 'nil propagation' in a chain of 
table accesses without having to check for key validity at each step.
(sort of analogous to NaN propagation in numeric computations)

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  Enrico