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

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

On 12/11/2010 03:51 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Richard Hundt:
>
> > My point is that, although there is a way of creating a sparse table
> > which works in a numeric for loop which (i.e. the # operator respects
> > the number of elements the table was constructed with barring trailing
> > nil's),
>
> This is simply not true, it's an artifact of some Lua implementation,
> in some cases.

This is Lua 5.2 for which there is a canonical implementation nearing 
release readiness. Surely conscious effort went into supporting the new 
table semantics? Besides, I'm specifically giving feedback to the Lua 
5.2 alpha implementation for which this thread was created.