Re: Multiple values returned or vararg expression in numeric for loop

[Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>]

On 9/14/12, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> If Lua patterns were to hold, the syntax would be
> "for <variable> = <exprlist> do"
> rather than
> "for <variable> = <expr>, <expr>[, <expr>] do".
> /s/ Adam

Why Lua uses the latter syntax, but not the former?
In fact, numeric "for" loop just accepts a usual list of values.
What is the reason for this syntax to be unlike it expected to be?