Re: (not) handling new programming idioms with grace

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Sorry didn't realize that was psuedocode.  Yes, same thing I proposed in another thread.  But exit func must be a new 4th parameter else you'll break a lot of existing code.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:39 AM John Belmonte <john@neggie.net> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 6:46 AM Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:

     do
       local f, s, var = explist
       local <mark> s = s -- added!
       while true do
         ...

Am I missing something?

We're not talking about iteration in general, rather iterators and specifically the case where ownership of the resource is encapsulated within the iterator.