Re: ipairs in Lua 5.3.0-alpha

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

2014-08-19 18:45 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>   Now, __pairs or __ipairs don't exist in Lua 5.1 and of the two, I regret
> not having __pairs.  I can work around __ipairs with
>
>         for i = 1 , #userdata do ... end
>
> __pairs, not so much [1].
>
>   -spc
>
> [1]     Okay, I can work around it with a very clumsy:
>
>                 udindex = { 'foo' , 'bar' , 'baz' }
>                 for _,idx in ipairs(udindex) do
>                   local item = userdata[idx]
>                   ...
>                 end

Doesn't

   for k,v in userdata:__pairs() do

where __pairs sits in you userdata's __index, do it?