Translations:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual/60/en

Tables are created using curly braces. The empty table is. To populate fields on creation, a comma- and/or semicolon-separated list of field specifiers may be included in the braces. These take any of several forms:
 * uses the (first) value of expression1 as the key and the (first) value of expression2 as the value.
 * is equivalent to
 * is roughly equivalent to, where i is an integer starting at 1 and incrementing with each field specification of this form. If this is the last field specifier and the expression has multiple values, all values are used; otherwise only the first is kept.