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Re: Project lead nominations for standard libraries?

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On 1/1/11 11:19 PM, Axel Kittenberger wrote: [... current # implementation into something like table.apex() and have # just call meta __len, and if there is no meta __len error. Then its up to some minimal basic lib to provide __len.
With a default __len() that simply returns number of elements, even if that
can be forbiddingly slow under unlucky circumstance.

On 1/1/11 9:23 PM, David J. Slate wrote: [
... Intuitively, I would have expected a "length operator" as applied to an associative table to produce a count of its keys, regardless of what kind of table it was.
Henning

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