Re: Table enumeration order with integer indices

[Francisco Olarte <folarte@...>]

Yan Li:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 09:47, Yan Li <yl.mechanize@gmail.com> wrote:
> The preconditions to operate a table :
...
> So with these same preconditions to operate a table, will pairs(t) produce the same enumeration?
> If the answer is yes,  Is it possible to make it landing on lua document(for `next` document) ?

Current computers and hash tables will make this happen unless you do
something like perturbing each hash table with different ( random? )
values ( to avoid things like DoS attacks, or whatever ). But the
point is, if it is specified the implementor denies himself the
possibility of making it work in another way ( although lua makes
backwards compatibility breaking changes every now and then ), so, why
do it? Is there any utility for this property?

Francisco Olarte.