Re: Proposal: Make creating large arrays faster and "allow" nils in arrays

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Mason Bogue once stated:
> We are all generally aware of the issues with the length operator on
> tables containing nil. There was an idea to fix this in 5.4 by
> creating a special t[x] = undef syntax, which was considered too ugly.
> Here I propose an alternative:
> 
> #t = 5 -- sets the length of the array portion of t to 5

  What happens if the __len metamethod is overridden?

  -spc