Re: Table enumeration

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Another way to put it: does pairs() always enumerate first what would be
> enumerated by ipairs(), then the rest of the table?

No. Although lua_next does traverse the array part first, there may be
entries for the list part in the hash part. Here is an example. You
may have to run it a few times to see this.

% cat a
a={10,20}
a.foo="bar"
a[5]=50
a[4]=40
a[3]=30
for k,v in pairs(a) do print(k,v) end

% lua -v a
Lua 5.4.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2020 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
1 10
2 20
3 30
4 40
foo bar
5 50