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- Subject: RE: My wish list :) [RE: How can we make lua better?]
- From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
- Date: 05 Jun 2002 14:56:35 -0400
I also give my vote for this feature. Both the shorter syntax and the
possible optimizations (which worked great in Scriptix) are Good
Things(tm).
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:46, Josh Jensen wrote:
> > 2) += and -= operators
> >Vote: NO
>
> I vote yes. This is actually a huge thorn, IMO, and makes scripts much
> more verbose than they need to be:
>
> Table1.table2.table3.table4.value += 1
>
> OR:
>
> Table1.table2.table3.table4.value = Table1.table2.table3.table4.value +
> 1
>
> OR:
>
> local tempTable = Table1.table2.table3.table4
> tempTable.value = tempTable.value + 1
>
> I choose the first one. Additionally, the first one allows the Lua VM
> to make certain optimizations that make it WAY faster than #2 and even
> faster than #3.
>
> -Josh