Re: catching writes to loop index

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 7-Feb-05, at 11:09 AM, Mike Pall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Asko Kauppi wrote:
> > Lua 5.0 refman says:
> >
> > "The behavior [of the iterative for statement] is undefined if you
> > assign to var_1 inside the block."
>
> This has already changed in Lua 5.1. You get a private copy of the 
> control
> variable inside the loop. Modifying it is safe now.

The question is, will it be documented as safe? (My vote is "yes")