Re: Assignment Expressions in Lua

["Jasper Klein" <jasper@...>]

Op Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:54:13 +0200 schreef Coda Highland  
<chighland@gmail.com>:

> >
> Lua's for loops don't have assignment expressions. It's actually rather
> noteworthy compared to other programming languages -- neither the
> initialization or the increment is a statement.
>
> The C++17 example also looks like something I would NEVER want to write.
> There's no compelling reason to put that on one line. Just kick the
> initializer out to the previous line, and add braces around it if you
> REALLY need the strict scoping.
>
> /s/ Adam

You don't have to write it. :-)

What about the next example?

local function f() return false end

for i = f() and 0 or 40, 42 do
  print( i )
end

print( i )

-- Jasper