Re: Table length evaluations --> Lua 5.5 vs. Lua 5.4

Luther Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.lua.general
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On 2/15/26 07:04, Błażej Roszkowski wrote:
> It seems there are still bugs. Comment in C source says "or 0 if t[1] 
> is absent" but
> for {nil, 1, 1, 1} the # yields 4 (due to *lenhint being 2 so 1 is 
> never checked).

I don't know where that comment is, but if it's like the documentation 
at https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#3.4.7, it's merely part of 
the definition of a border. Since the # result can be any border, it 
won't always be 0 if there are other borders in the table.

Luther

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