Re: '__iter', yet again!

[spir <denis.spir@...>]

"John Hind" <john.hind@zen.co.uk> dixit:

> So we are back were we started (or have I missed something?) - what is
> needed is a new metamethod which is invoked when the explist of a generic
> for fails to resolve a function in its first slot. The object designer could
> put an iterator factory function in this slot which can return any form of
> iterator including stateless.
> 
>  
> 
> I really cannot see why this solution is resisted - it is fully backward
> compatible and syntactically uncomplicated. The context of the explist is
> easily distinguishable being bracketed by the reserved words 'in' and 'do'.


I support this view. 'in' is an operator-like keyword which deserves its own metamethod. It would make everything easier and more supple.

Denis
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