Re: Lua 5.1 (work6) now available (for loop)

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Joshua Jensen wrote:
> > > Perhaps I can do a better job explaining if I actually 
> >
> > understood why 
> >
> > > adding the extra (ugly) syntax for basic table iterations 
> >
> > makes Lua a 
> >
> > > better language.
> >
> > As Myke pointed out, this is an old decision. The rationale 
> > is that we do not see "pairs" as the "basic table iteration". 
> > I, for instance, use ipairs much more frequently than pairs.  
> > I believe that is true for many other programmers.

I heard someone mention the possible addition of a "__pairs" or "__iter" 
metamethod. I don't see such a thing in work6. But that would be a great 
solution to this problem for my application. Is it being considered?

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