Re: Quest: real world "Lua array with holes" usage

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

2016-07-28 10:54 GMT+02:00 Thomas Jericke <tjericke@indel.ch>:

> There you go. Not that I like it, but not really an issue.

Exactly. People who write obscene code don't deserve legal protection.
If your table literal contains expressions with non-orthogonal side effects,
your program deserves to crash. It's at the level of "don't touch the prongs
with your finger while inserting the plug into the wall socket". Why must
a manual state that explicitly?

> Also when I use the debugger,  so far I have only seen Lua to evaluate
> table constructors in order,

Or use luac.

> so a solution would be to just grantee the most obvious behavior.

Not an option.

Someday we may see ParaLua, an implementation of Lua that can
exploit a parallel computer or a cluster. In that case such a guarantee
would force a bottleneck.