On 2018-06-02 19:46, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>>>>> "Rodrigo" == Rodrigo Azevedo <rodrigoams@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Rodrigo> NIL_IN_TABLE is good only for 'arrays' types,
>
> This is absolutely not true; I've been finding the lack of nils in
> tables _very_ frustrating, and none of my use-cases have been anything
> to do with arrays as opposed to more general tables.
Can you (abstractly, briefly) describe a few of them?
(For me, `nil` is a _symbol_ for "there's nothing here", so the approach
of actually storing nils seems backwards… and so I'm looking for other
solutions. Having a bunch of test problems would be handy. I scanned
through the relevant threads I recalled and didn't find any good ones.)
Regards,
nobody
I like to think that t={} creates a table with every possible numeric, string, boolean etc key value pre-filled with nils. pairs() just ignores nil values.
Vaughan
