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- Subject: Re: new "empty" value/type in Lua?
- From: "Thomas Jericke" <tjericke@...>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:27:28 +0200
-----Original Message-----
> From: "Dirk Laurie" <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>
> To: "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> Date: 02-07-2013 18:09
> Subject: Re: new "empty" value/type in Lua?
>
> 2013/7/2 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:
>
> > the array stores its length 'n' explicitly
>
> Come back, Lua 5.0! All is forgiven!
Actually I thought 'n' would be hidden in the metatable. The way how it is stored should be implementation detail. The only way to change the length would be myarray:setlength(n) and to get it either #myarray or myarray:getlength()
