Re: Issues with the current varargs implementation (Was: Re: inadequate documentation for select and table.unpack)

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 23.06.2016 um 16:52 schröbte Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo:
> > fargs, nargs = {...}, select('#', ...)
>
> That's a job for table.pack:
>
> 	fargs = table.pack(...)
> 	nargs = fargs.n
>
> One of the motivations for table.pack.

As long as Lua 5.1 (via LuaJIT) is still relevant, `table.pack` isn't 
really that useful since you need `{n=select('#',...),...}` anyway ...

Philipp