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- Subject: Re: LUA oddities..
- From: Enrico Tassi <gares@...>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:38:21 +0200
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:21:57AM -0700, Patrick Masotta wrote:
> I’m new to LUA but I have good programming experince..
> 1) I couldn’t believe when I saw LUA arrays indexed from “1”; that’s for kids not for programmers.
No, arrays are not 1 based. You can write a[0] and it does what you
think it does. Then, the standard implementation of Lua is more
efficient if you use the range 1..n instead of the range 0..n-1, but
IIRC other implementations do not behave like that because this is a
detail of the implementation, it is not part of the Lua language.
You should really think Lua has no array, it has just (hash) tables.
Cheers
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Enrico Tassi
