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		ufo on May 16, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua 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.

90s_dev on May 17, 2025 [–]

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

ufo on May 17, 2025 | [–]

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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