Re: Lua 4.0

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>> - `for' statement for tables: «for k,v in t do ... end»
>
>Forgive me if this topic has already been beaten to death, but what is
>the advantage of this new syntax over the old foreach, such as:
>
>foreach(t, function(k,v) ... end)
>
>I suppose it eliminates the need to refer to upvalues with the "%"
>syntax, but what else?

Right, it avoids upvalues. And it also avoids the cost of a function call
per each element in the table.
--lhf