Re: Empty? No. Array? No. Has? Yes.

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

I'm fine with that too .. the real issue was "is there a need to agree on a way, and what, if so, is that way?"

--Tim

On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@cox.net> wrote:

I agree that the elegance is not to be lightly discarded.  In this discussion I am not understanding what is wrong with using nan as a place holder to make a table have array like properties.  To my mind another advantage of nan is that string.format will not choke on it the way it does on nil.