Re: Sorting part of a list

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> writes:
> Observe that the table.* functions do honor the __len operator in
> 5.2.  This change between 5.1 and 5.2 was for reasons that remain
> unclear to me [1-3].  I'm not aware of a serious argument or use
> case for it, so I'm a bit puzzled by it.

It looks to me like it was the result of a general cleanup of
length-calculating stuff in 5.2, more than an explicit change to
table.sort.

-Miles

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