Re: Conventional name proposal: merge

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> `merge` returns a new table. No argument table is changed.

in my typical Lua toolbox, i put an update equivalent (called merge,
thou) that returns the first argument mutated.  if i want the shallow
copy functionality (that's pretty common), i just do

netable = merge ({}, oldtable)

so i can have it both ways

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Javier