RE: pairs(t, skey) and ipairs(t, skey)

["Schmidt, Phil" <PSchmidt@...>]

"A sequence in Lua has no holes and # returns the number of elements in a sequence."


Does not the example below contradict the statement above? If not, then why not?



Lua 5.2.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> a={'a','b','c','d'}
> print(#a)
4
> for k,v in ipairs(a) do print(k,v) end
1       a
2       b
3       c
4       d
> a[3]=nil
> print(#a)
4
> for k,v in ipairs(a) do print(k,v) end
1       a
2       b
>

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