Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version (updated)

[Martin <dyngeccetor8@...>]

On 2020-07-23 7:01 p.m., Philippe Verdy wrote:
> As well I consider that the documented syntax of table constructors, 
> where explicit keys can be arbitrary expressions whose value is 
> unpredictable, such as a function call, is fundamentally flawed if the 
> behavior and notably the order of assignments, is not defined at all. 
> Thus syntax serves no serious purpose
>
> I would say the same with the unary operator # which can return 
> anything, as well as the corel ibrary function table.maxn()....

It's off-topic but I think array-table dualism can be fixed by adding 
syntax for indexing array part. Parenthesis for example. So for "t = 
{false, [1] = true}", "t[1]" is true and "t(1)" is false.

-- Martin