On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:12 PM Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's interesting, thanks.  Although I don't think it fits my use case 
> because I need something stronger than an iterator: a function that given a 
> table and a key returns the next key in the table (as this is a public API 
> that Lua provides, see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#pdf-next).  
> From my point of view this is an unfortunate API!  Nevertheless it is what it 
> is...  I haven't found even a hacky way to obtain that for a Go map.  That is 
> why I think I need to make my own hashtable implementation

The linked pdf seems to indicate that Lua's 'next' can be implemented
using Go range over a map with no problem because the iteration order
is undefined in Lua as well.

What am I missing?

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