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Tables bound to variables can have a slot value changed by a table assignment:
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The name should refer to a variable that has a table bound to it in the current dictionary. The value of the expression between square brackets must be a number compatible with the size of the table and will result in the index of a slot. The value of this slot will be replaced by the value of the expression on the right-hand side; the updated table will be returned as the value of the table assignment.
In the above transcript table
assignment is used to initialise a table
Months
holding the number of days in each of the twelve months. Note that
the table index -ranging from 1 through 12- identifies the month.