Re: Function to force table to shrink?

Yes, but I want other references to see an empty table

For example, if there are a bunch of workers (coroutines) putting stuff to
do into a table. After all the stuff is done I could do table.clear

ITT I literally move all values to a proxy, then clear the table.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026, 10:51 PM bil til <[email protected]> wrote:

> > It would still be nice IMO to have a table.clear() which just
>
> sorry for a stupid question, I did not really understand all the
> details of this discussion.
>
> But if for a table t you just write t=nil, won't this also delete the
> table?
>
> (so it would do the same as what you want to do by t.clear()?
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