One curiosity...

While doing some C-module coding I managed to put a table at TOS and do...

  lua_rawseti(L, -1, i);

It was a finger slip, and did lead to an easily fixable bug, but it let me
wondering if this ( and some of the variants which can be coded with the
table-setting-value-popping functions ) is legal, or I just dodged a bullet
by tripping.

I mean, from a direct read of the manual if I do...

int dirty_trick(lua_State *L) {
   luaL_checktable(L,1);
   lua_setop(L,1);
   lua_rawseti(L,1,1);
   return 0;
}

I would expect just an empty stack when reaching the return, and if I call
it like....

local t={}
dirty_trick(t)

I would expect t[1]==t and nothing more.

I am not presently using it, but I am asking because if it works this way
it could simplify border-case logic in some other code I have.

Francisco Olarte.

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