no more `lua_getn' function

lapi.c

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: lapi.c,v 1.202 2002/06/24 13:08:45 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: lapi.c,v 1.203 2002/06/25 19:15:41 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Lua API
 ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
 */
@@ -697,43 +697,6 @@ LUA_API int lua_next (lua_State *L, int index) {
 }
 
 
-LUA_API int lua_getn (lua_State *L, int index) {
-  StkId t;
-  const TObject *value;
-  int n;
-  lua_lock(L);
-  t = luaA_index(L, index);
-  api_check(L, ttype(t) == LUA_TTABLE);
-  value = luaH_getstr(hvalue(t), luaS_newliteral(L, "n"));  /* = t.n */
-  if (ttype(value) == LUA_TNUMBER)
-    lua_number2int(n, nvalue(value));
-  else {
-    Node *nd;
-    Table *a = hvalue(t);
-    lua_Number max = 0;
-    int i;
-    i = sizearray(a);
-    while (i--) {
-      if (ttype(&a->array[i]) != LUA_TNIL)
-        break;
-    }
-    max = i+1;
-    i = sizenode(a);
-    nd = a->node;
-    while (i--) {
-      if (ttype(key(nd)) == LUA_TNUMBER &&
-          ttype(val(nd)) != LUA_TNIL &&
-          nvalue(key(nd)) > max)
-        max = nvalue(key(nd));
-      nd++;
-    }
-    lua_number2int(n, max);
-  }
-  lua_unlock(L);
-  return n;
-}
-
-
 LUA_API void lua_concat (lua_State *L, int n) {
   lua_lock(L);
   api_checknelems(L, n);

lauxlib.c

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: lauxlib.c,v 1.75 2002/06/18 15:19:27 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: lauxlib.c,v 1.76 2002/06/25 19:15:21 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Auxiliary functions for building Lua libraries
 ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
 */
@@ -272,17 +272,20 @@ LUALIB_API void luaL_buffinit (lua_State *L, luaL_Buffer *B) {
 LUALIB_API int luaL_ref (lua_State *L, int t) {
   int ref;
   lua_rawgeti(L, t, 0);  /* get first free element */
-  ref = (int)lua_tonumber(L, -1);
+  ref = (int)lua_tonumber(L, -1);  /* ref = t[0] */
   lua_pop(L, 1);  /* remove it from stack */
   if (ref != 0) {  /* any free element? */
     lua_rawgeti(L, t, ref);  /* remove it from list */
-    lua_rawseti(L, t, 0);
+    lua_rawseti(L, t, 0);  /* (that is, t[0] = t[ref]) */
   }
   else {  /* no free elements */
-    ref = lua_getn(L, t) + 1;  /* use next `n' */
     lua_pushliteral(L, "n");
+    lua_pushvalue(L, -1);
+    lua_rawget(L, t);  /* get t.n */
+    ref = (int)lua_tonumber(L, -1) + 1;  /* ref = t.n + 1 */
+    lua_pop(L, 1);  /* pop t.n */
     lua_pushnumber(L, ref);
-    lua_rawset(L, t);  /* n = n+1 */
+    lua_rawset(L, t);  /* t.n = t.n + 1 */
   }
   lua_rawseti(L, t, ref);
   return ref;
@@ -292,9 +295,9 @@ LUALIB_API int luaL_ref (lua_State *L, int t) {
 LUALIB_API void luaL_unref (lua_State *L, int t, int ref) {
   if (ref >= 0) {
     lua_rawgeti(L, t, 0);
+    lua_rawseti(L, t, ref);  /* t[ref] = t[0] */
     lua_pushnumber(L, ref);
-    lua_rawseti(L, t, 0);
+    lua_rawseti(L, t, 0);  /* t[0] = ref */
-    lua_rawseti(L, t, ref);
   }
 }
 

lbaselib.c

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: lbaselib.c,v 1.85 2002/06/25 19:19:33 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: lbaselib.c,v 1.86 2002/06/26 16:37:13 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Basic library
 ** See Copyright Notice in lua.h
 */
@@ -257,11 +257,20 @@ static int luaB_assert (lua_State *L) {
 static int luaB_unpack (lua_State *L) {
   int n, i;
   luaL_check_type(L, 1, LUA_TTABLE);
-  n = lua_getn(L, 1);
+  lua_pushliteral(L, "n");
-  luaL_check_stack(L, n+LUA_MINSTACK, "table too big to unpack");
+  lua_rawget(L, 1);
-  for (i=1; i<=n; i++)  /* push arg[1...n] */
+  n = (lua_isnumber(L, -1)) ?  (int)lua_tonumber(L, -1) : -1;
-    lua_rawgeti(L, 1, i);
+  for (i=0; i<n || n==-1; i++) {  /* push arg[1...n] */
-  return n;
+    luaL_check_stack(L, 1, "table too big to unpack");
+    lua_rawgeti(L, 1, i+1);
+    if (n == -1) {  /* no explicit limit? */
+      if (lua_isnil(L, -1)) {  /* stop at first `nil' element */
+        lua_pop(L, 1);  /* remove `nil' */
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return i;
 }
 
 

lua.h

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-** $Id: lua.h,v 1.142 2002/06/20 20:41:46 roberto Exp roberto $
+** $Id: lua.h,v 1.143 2002/06/25 19:18:49 roberto Exp roberto $
 ** Lua - An Extensible Extension Language
 ** Tecgraf: Computer Graphics Technology Group, PUC-Rio, Brazil
 ** http://www.lua.org	mailto:info@lua.org
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ LUA_API void  lua_setgcthreshold (lua_State *L, int newthreshold);
 LUA_API int   lua_error (lua_State *L);
 
 LUA_API int   lua_next (lua_State *L, int index);
-LUA_API int   lua_getn (lua_State *L, int index);
 
 LUA_API void  lua_concat (lua_State *L, int n);