Re: [Proposal] .name global indexing (Was: Re: 'with' statement)

[Andrew Cannon <ajc@...>]

On 11/03/16 09:24, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2016-03-10 17:55 GMT+02:00 Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>:
> 
>> At this point you might as well use _.a = 1 and then you no longer
>> even need a with statement.
> 
> I use local names consisting of one capital letter instead of _.
> Idioms like "for _,value in pairs(tbl) do" cultivate a habit that
> the underscore is used for return values that one does not
> intend to refer to.
> 

Perhaps this syntax could be extended to allow already initialized table members
to be used in initialization later members, a feature which I have sometimes missed:

eg:

local t = {
	a = x1 * x2,
	b = _.a + 1
}

The '_' in this case would reference the table currently being built.

Andrew