RE: Embedded 'nil' values - a suggestion

["Couwenberg, Wim" <wim.couwenberg@...>]

> The 'solution' cannot be "track the internal size yourself 
> and iterate it yourself" specifically because it is 

That works fine for me...

> impossible in 5.1 to pass nil values to vararg functions and 
> know that the user explicitly passed an empty value.

It is possible.  See also recent posts about this on this list:

  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-02/msg00537.html

Specifically the "select("#", ...)" construct.

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Wim

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