Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available
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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available
- From: Klaus Ripke <paul-lua@...>
- Date: 2010年1月15日 01:51:10 +0100
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:52:33PM +0300, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:37, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010年1月9日 Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@inconcertcc.com>:
> >>> 17. Documented behaviour of ipairs() is changed from "iterates until
> >>> *first nil*" to "traverses table length elements as defined by length
> >>> operator".
>
> > This is more consistent, but given how strange #t is when t has a
> > number of holes, it isn't necessarily more useful.
>
> (1) Don't have holes in tables you want to measure with #, that's all.
That's why this change to rely on #t is completely beyond me.
I fail to see how breaking perfectly valid code
by trading a well defined behaviour for all tables
for something undefined on "arrays with holes" does any good.
best