Re: Making lua case insensitive

[Eric Tetz <erictetz@...>]

I have a question about the design of Lua's for loop.

In my opinion, the syntax:

   for i = 1 to 100
     ...
   end

   for n = 79 to 0 step -1
     ...
   end

is more in keeping with the general look and feel of Lua's other control flow statements.  I also
find it easier to read, and more self-documenting.  'if exp,exp,exp' is reminiscent of a C 'for'
loop, but it doesn't have the same semantics.  Lua's for loop has the semantics of a 'for' loop in
Basic or Pascal, so why not the same clear, suggestive syntax?

It seems that everything in Lua has been carefully thought out, so I can only assume that the same
amount of thought went into choosing the syntax for the 'for' loop.  How was it chosen?

Curious,
Eric

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