Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Saturday, August 16, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-08-16 16:23 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:
>
> > What would be most useful to me, would be if ipairs returned all numeric key
> > / value pairs, in order, regardless of holes.
>
> I can't see how implementing that in C would be possible in
> a cleverer way than iterating over pairs and keeping what you
> need. But the Lua extension I thought was off-topic would
> do this for you:
>
>    for k,v in pairs(tbl) if type(k)=='number' do
>       ...
>    end

Not in order.