Building recursive argument lists in a shorter way?

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

I have many setter methods that handle properties that represent an
inventory of one or more objects of the same class (to borrow from
OOP).

So that I don't need to write a "set_prop" and "set_props" function, I
write this quite a bit:

local function f(arg, ...)
    if (...) then
        return arg, f(...)
    else
        return arg
    end
end


A more compact variant doesn't work:

local function f2(arg, ...)
    return arg, (...) and f2(...)
end

...for more than two recursions.


It's not a big deal, at all, but if there was some way to get closer
to the second example, and still have it work for n arguments, I'd
like to know it.

:)

-Andrew