Re: Possible bug relating to table sizes

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2011/10/31 Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it>:

> The length operator '#' returns the intuitively-correct value only for
> tables which are "arrays" ("sequences", in the new Lua 5.2 parlance), i.e.
> tables whose numeric keys begins at 1 and ends at some other integer N. If
> there are "holes" or non integer numeric keys, '#' returns weird values,
> …
> The same applies to ipairs (it will traverse an array only if *it is* an
> "array") and almost all other table library functions.
>

5.2 beta allows you to supply an __ipairs metamethod.  Overriding the
__len metamethod has no effect on the standard ipairs.

Dirk