Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 

Unless you mean:

for k,v in ipairs(tbl) do
	if ok(v) then
		…
	end
end

Which is more interesting to me, and I would agree that “if” is a better keyword in this case.

—Tim