Except of course by the simple expedient of replacing ipairs(t) with a version that does what you want it to do directly! Even, if you insist, with a version that uses a metamethod __ipairs! The metamethods on both pairs and ipairs have>>>> for i,v in pairs(t) do print(i,v) end >>A perfect example of why deprecating __ipairs was the wrong move. It>>ought to be possible to make this code work with ipairs(t) as well, but>>with no __ipairs metamethod it can't be done. >>Andrew.
always baffled me with their utter triviality! - John.