Re: Conventional name proposal: merge

[Egil Hjelmeland <privat@...>]

Den 2012-12-14 07:19, skrev Dirk Laurie:
> merge(...): returns a new table containing all the pairs from all the
>     tables given as arguments. In particular, if there is only one argument,
>     returns a shallow copy. In case of duplicate keys, later values
>     replace earlier ones. Nil arguments are treated as empty tables.
>
> The documentation is much longer than the code!
I like it. Simple, generic, works for both array-like and dict-like tables.

Maybe also merge_rev(...) : Processing (...) backwards, giving 
precedence to earlier tables in (...) .

Egil