Re: Explanation needed for setfenv replacement for Lua 5.2

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 07/05/2011 9.26, steve donovan wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Lorenzo Donati
> <lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it>  wrote:
> > in the end? Or am I missing something?
>
> You are missing nothing here.  The notation just seemed very cute.

Always good to know! :-P :-)

> (the env() function could also ensure that we also look up in the
> enclosing environment, so it would not be necessary to use print=print
> in the table.)
>
> Note also that this kind of one-shot iterator could do something
> interesting on the start of the second iteration before returning nil,
> like finalizers.

Interesting points. thanks!

> steve d.

Cheers!


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Lorenzo