Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <20190531171653.d6be1e3c4cc1ce72a2039a1d@ryanfordwebdev.com>
          Ryan Ford <ryan@ryanfordwebdev.com> wrote:
> But maybe we can agree that the syntax feels "foreign" to the existing syntax.

Surely that is only because we are not used to it. I certainly think

function (myfile)
   local <toclose> f = io.open (myfile, "r")
   return f:read "*all"
   end

is snappier than

function (myfile)
   local f = io.open (myfile, "r")
   local s = f:read "*all"
   f:close ( )
   return s
   end

The __close event seems to me a logical extension of Lua's reflexive
capabilities. 

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