Re: Generators in lua?

[James Hearn <james.hearn@...>]

> I wonder if anyone has a good way of emulating Generators and goal
> directed evaluation in Lua. Or if they have been considered for
> implementation in the core language. Functions as values coupled with
> upvalues make me think it would be reasonably easy.  Python recently
> added them and I am a longtime Icon programmer.
>
> MvH Dan Andersson

Um, you might check out http://lua-users.org/wiki/ExtendingForAndNext ,
which talks about generators... I really don't know much about the subject,
so I'll just leave it at that.

--James Hearn