Re: [BUG] Table constructor not equivalent to left-to-right assignment (Was: Testing for a sequence ...)

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

> The example in the 5.2
> manual page 18 implies this but it is never explicitly stated.
>

That example actually spells out clearly what you should do
do if you feel uncomfortable with the undefined property
of duplicate table keys in a table constructor.  So:

(a) Making it deterministic will ruin optimization of sequences
in table constructors .
(b) It's easy to avoid the problem at the Lua source code level.

This discussion is not going anywhere.  It's been honored
by a contribution from Roberto himself, from which it is
quite clear that the Lua designers are not going to
ditch the optimization of sequence constructors.

I forked this thread originally, but I accept that duplicate
keys in a constructor is never going to be good Lua with
predictable behaviour.

Signing off this thread,
Dirk