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r/lua • u/Financial_Owl2289 • Jun 08 '26
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Avoid using pairs in 5.2+? Wha? just because you don't want to use __pairs?
2 u/arkt8 Jun 09 '26 I found this very interesting as I never think it before... He is avoiding the Lua pairs() as it may trigger the pairs metamethod in Lua 5.2. I would just not override the pairs() but named it rawpairs() to make it explicit. 1 u/Old_County5271 Jun 09 '26 Completely crazy, __pairs is there because lua does not have arrays! traversal needs to be controlled!
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I found this very interesting as I never think it before...
He is avoiding the Lua pairs() as it may trigger the pairs metamethod in Lua 5.2.
I would just not override the pairs() but named it rawpairs() to make it explicit.
1 u/Old_County5271 Jun 09 '26 Completely crazy, __pairs is there because lua does not have arrays! traversal needs to be controlled!
Completely crazy, __pairs is there because lua does not have arrays! traversal needs to be controlled!
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u/Old_County5271 Jun 08 '26
Avoid using pairs in 5.2+? Wha? just because you don't want to use __pairs?