Re: What is the communities' view about functional programming/higher order function

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Gary Ng asked:

> 2. the default behaviour of the for/loop iterators expect
> k,v pairs on each iteration, should this be in general
> adopted for custom iterators ?

Mike Pall responded well to this[1].  Let me add the remark
that Lua already contains some iterators (returned by
string.gfind and io.lines) that don't return pairs of
values.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-01/msg00013.html

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Aaron