Re: [proposal] Using nil/NaN as table index

[Peter Melnichenko <petjamelnik@...>]

2014-04-08 22:41 GMT+03:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> When setting a field, these two keys that are a priori known to be
> non-retrievable helpfully throw an error instead of bequeathing
> a thorny debugging problem to the user.
> 
> That's a service, not an inconsistency.

What's inconsistent, in my opinion, is that an error is not thrown when _getting_ a field using those non-retrievable keys, which may result in thorny debugging problems as well. 

Peter