Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Aug 16, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>   for k,v in ipairs(tbl) while ok(v) do
>   end
> 
> and
> 
>   for k,v in pairs(tbl) if ok(v) do
>   end
> 

Presumably syntactic sugar for (in the while case):

for k,v in ipairs(tbl) do
	if not ok(v) then break end
	...
end

Doesn’t seem to buy much, and I don’t like the “if” version, it seems clumsy to read.

—Tim