Re: What is the equivalent of die() command of perl

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
> f = assert(io.open(file))
> ...
> This actually gives a sensible error trace, because if io.open fails
> it returns two values, nil and an error message. The second parameter
> of assert() is the message string, so it works as expected.

Gee, never noticed that before... and lots of lua functions have exactly
the right return profile to do this!

-Miles

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