Re: Is it safe to unpack { nil, a, b } ?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> The reason why it works is that when you have a table constructor,
> the "array" part of the table is initialized to be large enough to contain
> all the keyless elements.

Even then we can get weird results:

  $ lua5.2 -e 'print(#{1,nil,3,4,nil})'
  1

-- Roberto