Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-08-19 12:47 GMT+02:00 Jan Behrens <jbe-lua-l@public-software-group.org>:

> As I previously said, the true power of a generic iterator interface
> is not its implementation/availability of the ipairs function (that
> always could be loaded as a module), but the common agreement of how
> the interface for iteration looks like. And this requires Lua 5.3 to
> stick to the __ipairs metamethod at least. The current plan, however,
> is to drop it.

I'll support you to the extent that I would like to see __ipairs retained,
but not to the point of changing its interface to accept an iterator triplet.

> This is why "PUC approval" and incorporation into Lua 5.3 would really
> help here.

Peace on you, brother.