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On 14/08/15 03:31 PM, Coda Highland wrote:

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:29 AM,  <tobias@justdreams.de> wrote:

Quoting "Soni L." <fakedme@gmail.com>:


With orif:

```lua
local flag = false
if i == 1 then
     flag = true
orif i == 2 then -- explicit fallthrough
     print(flag)
else -- default
     print "Unknown!"
end
```


Lua has elseif which is I think exactly the same:
local flag = false
if i == 1 then
     flag = true
elseif i == 2 then -- explicit fallthrough
     print(flag)
else -- default
     print "Unknown!"
end

Regards,
   Tobias

No, elseif is totally different semantics, and elseif is exactly WHY I
think orif is a bad idea: elseif only fires if an earlier condition
wasn't true. orif looks syntactically like it ought to behave like
elseif, but it doesn't.

/s/ Adam


orif is the or operator combined with elseif.

It's similar to this (if Lua allowed this):

local flag = false
if i == 1 then
  flag = true
  goto next
elseif i == 2 then
  ::next::
  print(flag)
else
  print"Unknown!"
end

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