Re: Lua 5.1 rc3 now available

[D Burgess <dburgess@...>]

>
> I understand the motivation for deprecating them, but is there thought to
> what the replacement is for:
>
>     table.foreach( t, print )
>
> It's a lot wordier to write:
>
>     for k, v in pairs( t ) do print( k, v ) end
>

Or compared to the lua 4 version

foreach(t, print)

Methinks the changes have not advanced the intuitive nature of Lua,
and there is a case for foreach being part of the "Basic Functions".

David B.