Re: __index returns truncated to one, why?

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Thursday, April 10, 2014, duz <duz@sol-3.de> wrote:
> > > > > >   local a, b, c = t[1]...
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> > No, it's meant to turn "return (h(table,index))" into "return h(table,index)"
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> I'm sorry, but I still don't see why it is so important to
> throw away any values here. Why is __index it in 2.4 defined to
>
>    return (h(table,index))
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> instead of just
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>    return h(table,index)
>
> which I'd find good uses for.

Because a function has multiple return values and a single index of a table only has one value and that is a defined specification of the language. 

-Andrew