Hallo,
On 3/13/07, Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Except that tables in Lua count from 1, not 0. I don't know
why---seems an odd choice to me. (And IIUC, it's by convention of the
various functions like ipairs, etc., not something more fundamental.)
Since you can use almost anything as a table key (the exception
being nil), the choice of the first "natural" numeric key had to be
arbitrary. There is nothing odd to it, 1 is as good a choice as 0. And
ipairs is faster than pairs, because it uses only the array part of a
table (tables in Lua are composed of an array part and a hash part, so
integer-indexed tables are almost as fast as C arrays). So it would be
better to just use Lua as it's supposed to be.
Cheers,
--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/
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