Since this discussion seems to be sparked by the deprecation of ipairs, the other option to consider is whether there's a way to make the value fetch more syntactically lightweight.
for i,v in ipairs( array ) do
-- do stuff
end
Versus:
for i = 1, #array do
local v = array[ i ]
-- do stuff
end
The latter mentions "array" twice, "i" twice, and has a lot more other material to get "v" created and assigned.
Mark
