Re: Bloat or no bloat? (Was: [Feature request])

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 21 September 2014 11:27, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Bloat" is something that adds to the length of the manual without
> adding to what Lua can already do. For example, if eventually in
> Lua 5.3 "for i in ipairs(tbl)" turns out to be exactly equivalent to
> "for i=1,#tbl" then 'ipairs' will be bloat.

I strongly disagree with your definition of "bloat". By your
definition, 'for' and 'while' are bloat because we have 'goto'.

And no, I don't wish to incite a discussion on what would be a better
definition because it is, in the end, subjective.

-- Hisham