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0 pointsufo10mo ago0 comments

Tables being dual purpose is fine. The real problem is that assigning nil deletes the table field. Unfortunately, fixing that now would cause Python3 levels of breakage.

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90s_dev10mo ago

I've never had an issue with =nil being delete. What problem does it cause?

ufoOP10mo ago

If you accidentally store nil in an array it creates "holes" inside an array, which breaks the length (#) of the array.

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0 pointsufo10mo ago0 comments

Tables being dual purpose is fine. The real problem is that assigning nil deletes the table field. Unfortunately, fixing that now would cause Python3 levels of breakage.

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90s_dev10mo ago

I've never had an issue with =nil being delete. What problem does it cause?

ufoOP10mo ago

If you accidentally store nil in an array it creates "holes" inside an array, which breaks the length (#) of the array.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse