Re: Returning nil vs returning nothing

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:20:54AM +0000, Andrew Gierth wrote:
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> Now, for something other than "drop the first result" which happens to
> be easy without needing a table, it might well be simpler to use a table
> (dropping the last result, for example, would require a lot of
> recursion).

Dropping trailing arguments does seem tricky (without the C API), but
dropping the first n arguments is as simple as `return select(n, ...)`.