Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>]

On 2 August 2018 at 14:00, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:

== true ...

I'll always cringe to that since beginners think an if _must_ have a comparison operator in it.

It is already boolean, no need to thest it again.

if process_the_data then

  slice_and_dice(data)

end

Better safe than sorry. process_the_data might return anything, anything other than false or nil will resolve as true. I prefer to avoid 'sort of true' in conditionals

 

Oh and this discussion is about removing not adding.

Oops my bad. Got sidetracked when Mark Balmer mentioned readability.