Re: need help: some features of Lua don't fit well together

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> To me, the case you described, is a sparse array, not a plain
> array. If something quick was available for dense arrays,
> it'd already be a big deal.

The problem is that there is no easy (cheap) way to know when a sparse
array becomes a "plain" one.

-- Roberto