Re: For loops and closures

["Peter Shook" <pshook@...>]

I like your proposal.
More than once, I've had the "What's the matter? Why are my closures nil?"
experience.

- Peter Shook

RLake wrote:

> I know this was brought up before (by me, amongst, I think, others) but I
> wonder if it would be possible to reopen the debate about whether
automatic
> variables in for loops are new bindings or not.
>
> It seems to me that constructions like this:
>
> for k, v in pairs(t) do
>   g_bindings[k] = function(x) return g(v, x) end
> end
>
> ought to "work" (i.e. the functions that are inserted into g_bindings
ought
> to be bound to different instances of v.)