On 1/4/2011 9:18 PM, Leo Razoumov wrote:
Faulty applied programming. When did programming involve a leap of faith? Try telling that to developers of aviation software.On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:31, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:Let's not get into this discussion again: #t does not return anything useful if t is "an array with holes".There is a good reason why this question persistently comes up again and again. Lua provides no good way to test whether a given array has holes or not. Most of the time one relies upon leap of faith to trust #t values. In that regard Lua quite successfully bridged a gap between Coding and Religion:-)
Use #t conservatively, according to its specifications. This advice has been repeated by many others in recent past postings. -- Cheers, Kein-Hong Man (esq.) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia