Re: select

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 19-Aug-04, at 6:03 PM, Diego Nehab wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > We also plan a new function select(i, ...), that returns its i-th
> > > argument. So you can loop over the varargs with something like
>
> I would prefer a skip() function that simply discarded the first 'n'
> arguments. Then you can enclose in () and have the effect of select().

Seems like there is at least massive support for this one. (It was also 
in the long missive I sent earlier, but I'll reinforce it here.)

I still prefer the functional tuples, though...

R.