Re: Testing for a sequence (was Re: Lua 5.2 Length Operator and tables (bug?)

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

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> In practice, this is not so much about toeing the line to any given definition in the manual, but more pragmatically to tell the difference between what can be stored in say, a JSON array [] vs. an object {} or a Java List vs. Map or Cocoa NSArray vs. NSDictionary, etc, etc…
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Or a Python list vs a Python dictionary.  Yes.

Sorry, I can't think that way any more.   I sing thus:

Lua, you is my language now,
you is, you is!
An' you ain't got no maps o' lists,
yo' table's de only one.
Dose plenty types was hurtin', ow,
Nohow,
Because de objects of de
past is all done done
Oh, Lua, my Lua!