Re: Lua in JavaScript

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

David Given wrote:
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> Rob Kendrick wrote:
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>> There are tricky aspects of cleverer more advanced aspects of each
>> language which are difficult to map onto the other, though.  Syntax is
>> the easy bit.
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> This is actually something I've been thinking about --- do you have any
> pointers on these issues that I can follow up on?

JavaScript's generators, iterators, exceptions and array comprehensions
all concern me, as they're sufficiently different to how Lua does them.
 I seem to recall scoping is subtly different, especially when you get
into the mess of the new "let" keyword.

B.