Re: Upcoming changes in Lua 5.4

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Benoit Germain once stated:
> 2018-01-20 10:43 GMT+01:00 Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org>:
> 
> > Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >
> > >  Why not the following?
> > >
> > >       function foo(...)
> > >         for i = 1 , #... do
> > >           print("the answer is",...[i])
> > >         end
> > >       end
> >
> >
> > As you stated, if the vargs are needed in a table simply using "..." in
> > a table constructor could also be used.
> >
> >
> IIR I proposed a patch in that spirit that a while back. Maybe list history
> can unearth it. Wasn't production ready though, my knowledge of Lua
> internals wasn't good enough.

  The thread starts here:

	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-05/msg00034.html

  Interesting discussion.  It appears that PUC took HyperHacker's idea for
_ARG.  There are also some issues brought up in

	http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-05/msg00107.html

  -spc