Re: prefix of "OP_TFORCALL" and "OP

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Subject: Re: prefix of "OP_TFORCALL" and "OP_TFORLOOP"
From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 07:17:46 -0300

> Opcode "OP_TFORCALL" and "OP_TFORLOOP" are for "generic for loop", I'm curious about what is the prefix "T" stands for ?

It means "table". It's from the time before the generic for, when
there was a table loop: for k,v in t do ... end.

References:
- prefix of "OP_TFORCALL" and "OP_TFORLOOP", Hugo

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