Re: Expanding multiple return values of Lua functions in a Lua table constructor

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 18 October 2012 06:28, agentzh <agentzh@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid the current behaviour is quite unintuitive. Opinions?
>
> Thanks!
> -agentzh
>

This question comes up regulary, and the answer always seems to be
"its intuitive the way it is".
The number of threads about it suggest this is not the case.
I hope that we can revisit this for the next lua version.

Other Complaints:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-09/msg00482.html "Passing table
as vararg ( newbie question )"
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-11/msg00419.html "newbie to lua
:-) a trivial question..."
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-06/msg00713.html "pack/unpack"
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-10/msg00009.html "A very basic
thing I don't get"

Responses:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-06/msg00202.html Luis: "This is
a bad idea."
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-08/msg00242.html Duncan Cross's
solution of repurposing ...

I do like the solution in Duncan's thread (using (DE)TUPLE opcodes),
but don't really like the syntax (that is, reusing ... after a call)