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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: Nnitpicks in the Lua 5.1 Reference Manual
From:       "Aaron Brown" <arundelo () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2006-03-30 13:40:41
Message-ID: BAY112-DAV2785A44718B6E76A61229C5D10 () phx ! gbl
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In <http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00770.html>
David Jones wrote:

> Section 2.2 says tables "can contain values of all types
> (except nil)", but this is inconsistent with ipairs which
> says "up to the first integer key with a nil value in the
> table" (keys can't have nil values), and "next" which says
> "There is no difference between a field not present in a
> table or a field with value nil".

Roberto's reply to a similar comment was:

> Tables cannot contain nils, but arrays can.

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-03/msg00576.html

Sorry again for this not being threaded.  I'm working on
getting Hotmail to not throw away messages from this list.

-- 
Aaron
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