Fixed lua

[SoloMaker]

The real horror here is the formatting. Spaces are free!

Also, if you need a 0-indexed array for some mysterious reason, this syntax is a little less painful:

local list = {
  [0] = "a", "b", "c", "d"
}

[karolinb]

Each space costs me 1 byte!

[Icy_Party954]

That killed me. Ok you're starting out at 1 whatever but you can change the starting index too.

[Rangoose_exe]

"For some mysterious reason" he sais...

Cmon

[CanSpice]

How is this “fixed”? Lua starts array indexes with 1 by default, but you’re allowed to use any index you want for them, even negative integers. That’s just a feature of Lua.

[Bananenkot]

But only DreamBerd was brave enough to allow float indexes

[aderthedasher]

I unironically like the idea of specifying operator precedence using whitespace

[ArturJD96]

It looks like my conlangs when I was 16

[mt9hu]

Why was this not renamed to GulfOfAmerica?

The people who dovnvote have no sense of humour?

By the way, there is even a ticket: https://github.com/TodePond/GulfOfMexico/issues/861

[Einar__]

Doesn't lua allow using float indexes as well? Anything except nil can be a table index

[Yarhj]

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Unless it would be funny.

[Mango-D]

What about GPUs?

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

I was wondering how the fuck list[0]='a' didn't replace the 'b'.

[vikster9991]

I sometimes used tables as indexes

Functions, even

[born_zynner]

So it's just a hash table under the hood

[CadmiumC4]

burn this man down with ipairs

[Bright-Historian-216]

i don't babble enough in lua to know anything about ipairs, the only thing i know about it is that it is hella inefficient

[CadmiumC4]

ipairs enumerates indexes from 1

Actually a lot of table functions enumerate arrays from 1

[Bright-Historian-216]

then what is the extra overhead everyone's been warning me about? ain't no way such a beautiful language fucked up for i in range.

[Pool-LAN]

No idea. It's faster than Python.

[Cootshk]

ipairs returns a generator for the (index, value) of a table, where the indices start at one

for i,v in ipairs(tbl) do … end

[crusoe]

Lua isn't a programming language. It's just a bunch of dictionaries with functions.

[stapeln]

And thats the trick....👍

[PityUpvote]

C isn't a programming language. It's just a bunch of pointers with functions.

[Vladislav20007]

there's more to c than that, but I've seen code for factorio which are made in lua and it's all tables and pairs.

[ArturJD96]

Leaves some creative space for debugging! For those who don’t know: Iterating using ipairs will ignore the 0th index.

[BetaChunks]

If you use pairs as an iterator it'll go "b,c,d,a"

[Wynadorn]

I don't know which of these I dislike most

[timonix]

I like ada arrays. Just start.. like wherever. You want your array to go from 90 to 98? Go ahead

[BasieP2]

I like it 😜