Re: new thought experiment: what would you add to Lua ?

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

On 14/09/2018 20:57, Jim wrote:
>

Some sugar maybe but something along the lines of:

  if item = find_something() then
    item:do_stuff()
  end

With `item` being local to the if scope, and not polluting the wider
block. So effectively it translates to this

  begin
    local item = find_something()
    if item then
      item:do_stuff()
    end
  end

Could probably do with it in while loops too.

Seems to flow with the for loop syntax, so not that wild an idea :)

Scott