Re: lua-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 13

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Kenneth Lorber once stated:
> 
> > On Jul 4, 2017, at 7:00 AM, lua-l-request@lists.lua.org wrote:
> > 
> > Re: Proposal: Lua should have arrow operators
> 
> I almost hate to point this out but ...
> 
> The proposed syntax 
> 	->	pass one result
> 	=>	pass two results
> isn't a good match to Lua syntax and arbitrarily only handles 2 cases.  What if you need to pass three results?
> 
> We have precedent in the long string/long comment syntax, so I hesitantly bring up:
> 	=>  pass one result
> 	==> pass two results
> 	===> pass three results
> and so on for as many results as required.

  Nah.  You have:

	->	one result

	=>	two results
	-->

	=->	three results
	-=>
	--->

	==>	four results
	=-->
	--=>
	---->

	==->	five results
	=-=>
	-==>
	----->

  And so on.  But wait?  What if you don't know the number?  Hmm ... 

	...>	nope, probably hard to parse
	*>	hmm ... eh ..
	@>	easy to parse, but no mnemonic meaning and it looks wierd
	~>	could work ...

  -spc