Lua 当nil作为table的index

local a = {}
a[nil] = 0 – 会报错“table index is nil”

// ltable.c

TValue *luaH_newkey (lua_State *L, Table *t, const TValue *key) {
  Node *mp;
  TValue aux;
  // error when key is nil
  if (ttisnil(key)) luaG_runerror(L, "table index is nil");
  
  // ...
}

而print(a[nil])不会报错，打印结果是nil

// ltable.c
const TValue *luaH_get (Table *t, const TValue *key) {
  switch (ttype(key)) {
    case LUA_TSHRSTR: return luaH_getshortstr(t, tsvalue(key));
    case LUA_TNUMINT: return luaH_getint(t, ivalue(key));
    
    // return nil when key is nil
    case LUA_TNIL: return luaO_nilobject;
    
    case LUA_TNUMFLT: {
      lua_Integer k;
      if (luaV_tointeger(key, &k, 0)) /* index is int? */
        return luaH_getint(t, k);  /* use specialized version */
      /* else... */
    }  /* FALLTHROUGH */
    default:
      return getgeneric(t, key);
  }
}

实际开发中还要是避免出现 a[nil]这种情况出现。