Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (alpha) now available

[Coroutines <coroutines@...>]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seriously, though, I can't see any real uses for it beyond just a
> complete and total table wipe. Anything else is either adequately
> served by nil assignment, or is an implementation detail that isn't
> exposed anyway.
>
> /s/ Adam
>

Yeah, just a simple clear() for everything in the table would be nice.
I don't know exactly how the array-part or the hash-part work but
ideally I'd want a tight C loop on both to nil their values and set
the length for either portion -- so the allocated array internally
says the same size, it's just cleared.  Same for the hash portion.

I could really only see extra parameters to this function if I wanted
to clear only the array portion, or only the hash portion.

Something like: table.clear(table[, mode]) -- were mode is a string
containing either 'a' for array or 'h' for hash -- similar to __mode's
option list in metatables.  Really just a table.clear() for erasing
everything would be nice...