Re: Table array performance improvement using dot notation

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

On 17/03/2014 8:27 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > local a = {}
> > for i = 1, arg[1] do a.i = i * i end
> This is not doing what you think it is: it is setting just one entry in the
> table, the one with key "i". Check the contents of the table after the loop.
>
> In general, a.x is sugar for a["x"]. Even if x happens to be the name of
> a variable, in a.x it is used as a string, not a variable.

Got it! That's my REXX background burning me where key.value applies to 
both, which makes sense because REXX only has one type - string.

Thanks