Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work3) now available

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

>> If both do exactly the same, the logical thing to keep would be ipairs,
>> not the numeric loop.  Simplifies the language.

> FWIW, I would second that. Drop the numeric loop. And keep ipairs alongside the generic for statement.

Err... How would you write this then?

for i = 1, 100 do
  print("I would never use numeric for again")
end

> Also, while we are at it, drop the while and repeat statement as well. How many loopy [sic] constructs does a language need?

Repeat-until is a bit superfluous ineed.

While is needed unless we transfor generic for to the something like
C++'s abomination.

Alexander.