Re: table.new in 5.3?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Tom N Harris <telliamed@whoopdedo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:40:02 AM steve donovan wrote:
>> It moved from "would be nice to have table.new" to "here are all the
>> things on the C side I would like to expose".
>>
>> Very easy to write a little extension to do most of these things, of
>> course....
>
> Especially since I don't see it ever appearing in PUC Lua. It violates the
> "array-part/hash-part is just an implementation detail" contract.

Optimizing a piece of software is all about the implementation
details, though. Neglecting implementation details leads to the Turing
Tarpit.

/s/ Adam