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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:50 PM, phlnc8 <phlnc8@gmail.com> wrote:
> What would be lost then is general iteration forms such as:
>  for a,b,c,d,e in some_iterator_returning_five_values() do ...
>
> Is that frequent?

Yes - string.gmatch() returns an arbitrary number of capture values. I
use this quite a lot.

-Duncan