patch: local a,b from t

[Peter Shook <peter.shook.engineer@...>]

Hello,

if you would rather type

    local a, b from some_table_expression

instead of

    local t = some_table_expression
    local a, b = t.a, t.b

then this patch is for you!

http://lua-users.org/files/wiki_insecure/power_patches/5.1-alpha/lua-5.1-alpha-from.patch

$ lua
Lua 5.1 (alpha)  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>
> write from io
> format from string
>
> function printf(...) write(format(...)) end
>
> printf("I should have written this patch %d years ago\n", 2)
I should have written this patch 2 years ago
>
> t = { a=1, b=2 }
>
> a, b from t
>
> print(a, b)
1       2
>

Cheers,

- Peter Shook