Re: Syntactic sugar idea: Safe use of nil

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> I find myself writing a fair amount of code that avoids going down a path
> when something is nil and if this is a common pattern for other people it
> might be useful to encode it in some form of syntactic sugar.

In other languages (e.g. Python), I think you'd be employing exceptions 
in this kind of situation.  It seems like Lua has the low-level 
mechanisms in place to support some kind of exception construct.  I'd be 
more interested in development in this area than what you are proposing.

-John

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