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

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 29.07.2016 09:34, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2016-07-29 8:20 GMT+02:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:
>
> > Anyway I am currently think {(1, 2, 3)} is the more intuitive array
> > constructor syntax. This because (1, 2, 3) is already the syntax for an
> > argument list.
> > To me {(1, 2, 3)} reads like: I have this list here that you should back me
> > into a table please.
> The most intuitive array constructor syntax is
>
>      Array{1,2,3}
>
> especially in a context where you also have
>
>      Deque{1,2,3}
>      Stack{1,2,3}
>      List{1,2,3}
>      Set{1,2,3}
That's a function call with a table as argument. I can't use that for a 
parser patch.

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Thomas