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- Subject: Re: Wording in sequence definition [Was: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1)]
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:48:41 +0200
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does that mean a table having keys 0, -1 or 1.5 no longer has a defined
> length?
Would you mean a table just with keys like that, e..g {[0] = 1, [-1] =
2}? Because there #t was always zero. It seems that if the table has
an 'array part' (the [1..n] sequence) then #t gives the length of that
array part. Certainly a lot of code does assume that one can add
things to an 'array' in this way without upsetting the length
operator.
steve d.
- References:
- The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1), Dirk Laurie
- Re: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1), Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1), Xavier Wang
- Re: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1), David Manura
- Re: Wording in sequence definition [Was: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1)], Lorenzo Donati
- Re: Wording in sequence definition [Was: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1)], Lorenzo Donati
- Re: Wording in sequence definition [Was: The terms "sequence", "list", etc in Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1)], HyperHacker