Re: select

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

The () enclosing is a BAAD THING.  Really.

I _know_ it, and still I've messed up with it once. It should be banned 
from Lua, forever!  There's too many C people using Lua, and in C that 
does nothing.

-ak		(don't reply - this is a dejavu thread..)


20.8.2004 kello 02:03, Diego Nehab kirjoitti:

 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().
>
> []s,
> Diego.