Re: Feature Suggestion: Make rawset() coerce "nothing" as its 3rd argument to nil, don't error

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Unfortunately it looks like rawset() doesn't like being called with its
> third argument being "nothing" and not nil.  Would it be possible for Lua
> upstream to have it instead coerce nothing to nil?  

The signature of rawset is
        rawset (table, index, value)

The intent is to set a value in a table. If no value is given, this is
clearly a mistake by the programmer. There are places where an argument
may be optional, but I don't think this is one of them.