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- Subject: Re: [BUG] Table constructor not equivalent to left-to-right assignment (Was: Testing for a sequence ...)
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:23:06 -0300
> I think you have discovered a bug. §3.4.8 of the manual states clearly,
> by way of an example, that a table constructor is equivalent to assignment
> of the entries from left to right.
An example is not part of the specification. (That is why we avoid
examples in the manual; it is easy to extrapolate what they intend to
exemplify. But then people complain that the manual is too dry...)
-- Roberto
