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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> This is not true at all. Lua tables can and frequently are used as an array and as a dictionary at the same time.

Such use, as the very next sentence in my message explained, makes them dictionaries, not arrays. There is a lot of confusion with respect to Lua's tables precisely because this is either not understood or ignored.

Cheers,
V.