Re: Low level table routines (Was: ipairs deprecated?)

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

2013/3/13 Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
>> We had all sorts of interesting ideas on how the table library could be
>> enhanced, inspired by posts on this list.  Eventually we settled on the
>> principle that the C core routines should only do simple tasks that
>> can take advantage of the stack and of fast C loops, and do have
>> expolicit limits, not implicit (neither 1 nor #tbl). [...]
>
> Is this documented somewhere?
>
> -- Roberto
>

Not publicly, except for a brief discussion (14 and 15 February 2013) on

   https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/lua-table-semantics

which predates (and probably precipated) our decision to move the
policy-related stuff out of the C code.

Dirk