Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) now available

[Eric Man <lericl.mailbox@...>]

Programmatically achieving the same thing.

for i=1, 3, 1 do
  if t == 2 then
    t[i] = nil
  else
    t[i] = i
  end
end

On 11/12/2010, at 5:38 PM, Richard Hundt wrote:

> On 11/16/2010 02:15 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>
> > This release candidate will be the alpha version if no glitches are  
> > found
> > in the next 10 days or so.
>
> One thing I've noticed is that although one can create a sparse  
> table using literal syntax:
>
> local t = { 1, nil, 3 }
>
> there doesn't seem to be a programmatic way of achieving the same  
> thing. Would it be possible to add support for:
>
> local t = { }
> table.insert(t, 1)
> table.insert(t, nil)
> table.insert(t, 3)
>
> and have it do the same thing?
>
> Cheers,
> Richard