Re: string.lines (a suggestion)

["D Burgess" <db@...>]

Questions:
  1) What is 'ASSUME' ?
  2) Agree that Lua needs round() to help tonumber() and it
     would be nice if this was in baselib.
  3) Should not div() return two values, namely quotient
     and remainder?

db
On 2004-07-28 at 10:34:29 Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@sci.fi> wrote:

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>Without 'pairs' and 'ipairs' I'd agree with you.
>Now the border is fuzzy, but perhaps it needs to be somewhere..
>
>Other globals I'd like to have (and I do, but as standard for everyone):
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>	function first(x) return x end
>	function second(_,x) return x end
>	function third(_,_,x) return x end
>
>In fact, here's my whole libext.lua file, which is my "wish list" for 
>tomorrow:
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>	
>
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>If Lua starts carrying those things, this file will naturally demenish. 
>:)
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>-ak
>
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>28.7.2004 kello 03:15, Jamie Webb kirjoitti:
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>  On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:32:58AM +0300, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>>> It's not the question it couldn't be done (I already did, with a 
>>> clumsy
>>> for loop).  It's a question on how cleanly it could be done.  Sorry to
>>> say :) but your example looks like Perl.. (no offense)
>>
>> True, but wouldn't it also be a Perlism to include such a redundant
>> function? Possibly string.lines has a place in stdlib, but enlarging
>> the built-in libraries to help a few people avoid typing a one-liner
>> doesn't seem right.
>>
>> -- Jamie Webb
>>
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