Re: 'table' as fallback for tables
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- Subject: Re: 'table' as fallback for tables
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: 2016年6月27日 10:40:41 -0700
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Bingo! I'd say an `n` key with an integer value greater than or
>> equal to 0, but let's not nitpick. I also think this would have been
>> a viable alternative to the sequence concept we now have, because it
>> has some useful properties:
>>
>> * [...]
>
> Something that seems to be missing in this discussion is constructors:
>
> l = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
> print(#l) --> ? (no 'l.n'...)
>
> -- Roberto
>
I think this has been mentioned before, but my personal opinion is
that table.pack is effectively the "array constructor".
l = table.pack(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
print(#l) --> 5, obviously
print(l.n) --> also 5
/s/ Adam