Re: Size of a non numerical indexed table

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 1-Sep-05, at 11:37 AM, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> That works. It's still a reasonably low proportionality constant and 
> most
> uses of a foreach form would have required generating a closure.
>
> I do recall some limit on the number of upvalues a C function can 
> have. How
> does this compare to the limits on the number of arguments a function 
> can
> take -- i.e., can we fit all of ... into individual upvalues?

Not if ... had a lot of elements. I think eachi would have to use two 
different strategies: if called with more than maxupval arguments, it 
would have to create a table and use a different next function.

As an aside, I would find this form useful for other things than ...

Dumb example but illustrative example:

for _, word in eachi("foo", "bar", "glitch") do