Re: Quest: real world "Lua array with holes" usage

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2016-07-28 12:47 GMT+02:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:
> On 28.07.2016 11:50, Dirk Laurie wrote:
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>> 2016-07-28 10:54 GMT+02:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:
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>>> so a solution would be to just grantee the most obvious behavior.
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>> Not an option.
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>> Someday we may see ParaLua, an implementation of Lua that can
>> exploit a parallel computer or a cluster. In that case such a guarantee
>> would force a bottleneck.
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> You already have that bottleneck, as you already can call functions with
> side effects in the table constructors.
> While it isn't guaranteed that these functions are called in order, it is
> guaranteed that they are called uninterrupted.

It requires some reading between the lines to come to that conclusion
(but the manual often seems to have that property :-)

I can't quite manage it yet; could you elaborate on that?