To me this is a serious flaw and I simply refuse to accept that it's beyond criticism. No language should allow its collections to be corrupted this easily. E

To me this is a serious flaw and I simply refuse to accept that it's beyond criticism. No language should allow its collections to be corrupted this easily. Especially when a key use of the language is configuring other software. Fortunately there are other configuration languages available now besides Lua which provide type checking, so I remain hopeful that a future version of Lua or one of the newer typed Lua variants will eventually learn from those.