RE: My wish list :) [RE: How can we make lua better?]

["Josh Jensen" <joshj@...>]

> 2) += and -= operators
>Vote: NO

I vote yes.  This is actually a huge thorn, IMO, and makes scripts much
more verbose than they need to be:

Table1.table2.table3.table4.value += 1

OR:

Table1.table2.table3.table4.value = Table1.table2.table3.table4.value +
1

OR:

local tempTable = Table1.table2.table3.table4
tempTable.value = tempTable.value + 1

I choose the first one.  Additionally, the first one allows the Lua VM
to make certain optimizations that make it WAY faster than #2 and even
faster than #3.

-Josh