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On Jun 28, 2016 2:47 AM, "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> > Which really doesn't need any changes to lua itself anyway; just a
> > vague agreement on 'one' standard sequence/array/list library.
>
> +1, simple and sweet. 'n' is hidden as it should be.
>
I haven't been following this thread that closely. So I apologize if this has already come up.
Speaking of hidden, it's a big deal whether 'n' is exposed to pairs().
If it is, special work has to be done in exploded-LOM-like keyed lists like
{key="datapoints", 7, 3, nil, 7, n=4}
When you iterate over the non-numeric keys, you also need to skip t.n. And...
If you don't include it in pairs, then
function shallowclone(t)
local nt={}
for k,v in pairs(t) do
nt[k] = v
end
return nt
end
is not going to clone all tables.
Jay