Re: ipairs deprecated?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Petite Abeille
<petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
> No. No shark was jumped.

It came from a time when the Lua team were trying to simplify Lua
further.  Having dropped function environments, and seeing that
ordinary tables could redefine #, it was felt that ipairs could always
be replaced with a plain loop.  However, there's _so much_ code out
there that uses ipairs(), so it was kept, and tables may redefine its
meaning with the __ipairs metamethod.

Otherwise, the first thing that would have happened is people would
have started writing their own ipairs ;)

steve d.