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steve donovan wrote:
It's easy to see why, and a wise programmer knows the cost of every construct. But I don't see why we can't keep a little bit of redundancy, if it does not cost the language much, so certain common patterns can continue to be expressed neatly.
Despite ipairs might not exist in Lua 5.2, I can't make myself to stop using it in my new scripts. Regarding performance: I would care only for those (rare) cases where it could be a bottleneck.
-- Shmuel