Re: Deleting all elements from a table

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

Aaron Brown skrev:
> Javier wrote:
>
> > while next (t) do
> >         t[next(t)]=nil
> > end
>
> This doesn't work if false is a key.

Easily fixed by checking specifically for non nil keys:

while next(t) ~= nil do
	t[next(t)] = nil
end

However, another way to go about the "my submodules may have 
references..." is to use weak references (but then they'll have to check 
that their reference is still valid before using them).

//Andreas