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- Subject: Re: inadequate documentation for select and table.unpack
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 22:25:19 +0200
2016-06-17 18:49 GMT+02:00 Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com>:
> These functions are officially part of Lua's standard libraries. However,
> except in their own subsections, they are not mentioned in the reference
> manual, and their own subsections have no useful keyword like "vararg" and
> "multiple results". The free version of the Lua book is obsolete in this
> respect.
>
> When you know how and when these functions are used, then the manual makes
> perfect sense. But if you do not, then you cannot even find them there
> (except by reading it through). I would say that some examples and
> cross-references would be very helpful.
http://www.lua.org/pil/
