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- Subject: Re: Strong tables in Lua 5.4
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:32:43 +0200
2018-03-19 22:12 GMT+02:00 Gregg Reynolds <dev@mobileink.com>:
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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 6:31 AM Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Define a "strong table" as one in which 't[k]=nil' does not remove the
>> key, it stores nil.
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>
> Result: two types of tables. Bad idea.
>
> Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate
>
> (Occam's razor)
Well, there are already four types of table, three of which are
varieties of weak (weak keys, weak values, weak both). So Occam's
razor has already lost its keenness.
