I think I agree with jrockway. I understand (now) that there's only string keys in objects, but that's the random part. Why have [] syntax for "arrays" then? It

I think I agree with jrockway. I understand (now) that there's only string keys in objects, but that's the random part. Why have [] syntax for "arrays" then? It's the hashing behaviour that's the 'gotcha'. Sure, x.a should stringize 'a' to make property access work cleanly, but why when using the indexing syntax? For example: sgraham@gerard:~$ lua Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > a = {} > a[0] = "wee" > a[1] = "waa" > a["1"] = "str" > print(a[0]) wee > print(a[1]) waa > print(a["1"]) str > > a["x"] = "wee" > a.x = "waa" > print(a["x"]) waa > print(a.x) waa > which seems wholly more reasonable.