Re: Numeric for loop with rationals

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-01-30 14:23 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
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> On 2018-01-30 06:58 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:11 AM, Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Also, rationals are still numbers. They're just not "Lua numbers"
>>> (objects
>>> with type(x) == "number"). Any language with operator overloading (e.g.
>>> C++)
>>> lets me have numeric for with rationals. Except Lua. (Python doesn't have
>>> numeric for at all so it doesn't count.)
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>> C++ does not have numeric for, so it doesn't count either.
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>> Francisco Olarte.
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> for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { printf("%d\n", i); }
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> Looks like it does, it's just more flexible than Lua's.

No 'for' is more flexible than Lua's.

for a,b,c,as_many_as_you_like in myiter(anything) do
end