Re: Proposal: Make creating large arrays faster and "allow" nils in arrays
[
Date Prev][
Date Next][
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index]
[
Thread Index]
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Make creating large arrays faster and "allow" nils in arrays
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: 2020年7月16日 16:40:05 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Mason Bogue once stated:
> We are all generally aware of the issues with the length operator on
> tables containing nil. There was an idea to fix this in 5.4 by
> creating a special t[x] = undef syntax, which was considered too ugly.
> Here I propose an alternative:
>
> #t = 5 -- sets the length of the array portion of t to 5
What happens if the __len metamethod is overridden?
-spc