Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-08-03 17:55 GMT+02:00 Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
>> I made a little experiment. The present behaviour is that if you
>> do not override __len, ipairs still chickens out a soon as a nil
>> value is encountered. It does not do what the manual says.
>
> I think the manual does not say what 'ipairs' should do in this case.

OK, I should have phrased that sentence as "It does what the
manual does not say."

But I think you know what I mean. The code does something
not documented in the manual, and what it does is sensible
enough that the manual should document it.