Fantastically annoying - an opinion that was sadly beaten in to me rather than being plucked out of thin air. Any language that indexes starting from 1, and can't be configured to index starting from 0, is broken as supplied. Lua makes a number of very poor decisions, in my view, with this being among the worst. I don't think it's quite the worst, but it might be... at index 1, perhaps.
I think ordinary Lua does the same? - this was all a while ago now - but the result isn't arraylike, because the indexes aren't starting from zero. Of course, you can keep on top of the indexes yourself, because tables are tables, and you can use whatever indexes you like and/or track the size by hand... but you might then feel that Lua isn't really being much help here...
