Re: Documentation for select 5.1 and 5.2

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Is the documentation for the select function [1] [2] correct when an
> number is provided for the first parameter as the docs say
> "returns all arguments after argument number index"
> 
> Lua 5.2.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > do
> local f = function(...) print(select(1,...)) end
> f(1,2,3)
> end
> 1	2	3
> 
> Index one is not after index one and index zero gives an invalid range
> error, I suspect it should say something to the effect of
> "returns all argument after and inclusive of argument number index"

Refrasing your example:

> print(select(1, 10, 20, 30))
  10   20    30

'10' is the second argument, not the first.

-- Roberto