Re: Lua Unpack with nil inconsistent behavior

[Domingo Alvarez Duarte <mingodad@...>]

I can confirm that it does work with Lua-5.4.6 but doesn't with Lua-5.3.6.

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t1 = {nil,"test"}
t2 = {true,nil,"test"}
table.remove(t2,1)
print(table.unpack(t1))
print(table.unpack(t2))

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On 16/7/23 10:20, Milind Gupta wrote:
> Hello,
>         I ran into this problem with table.unpack. I am using Lua 
> 5.3.5 and I see this:
>
> Lua 5.3.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2018 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > t1 = {nil,"test"}
> > t2 = {true,nil,"test"}
> > table.remove(t2,1)
> true
> > table.unpack(t1)
> nil     test
> > table.unpack(t2)
> >
>
> So specifically after removing the 1st element using table.remove the 
> table.unpack does not return anything even though t1 and t2 have the 
> same values.
>
> Is this expected behavior? Are there any guidelines how to unpack an 
> array with nil values?
>
> Thanks,
> Milind