Re: Lua 5.2 Keywords - In

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Miles

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Miles Bader wrote:

> Olivier Hamel <evilpineapple@cox.net> writes:
> > One of the things I like in Lua 5.1 is that very few of the
> > keywords are 'overloaded', the main exceptions being 'do' and 'end'.
> >
> > I'd personally prefer if it didn't reuse 'in' which is already in use
> > by the 'for' loops.
>
> Why?
>
> The only problem with overloading is where it causes confusion, which
> this new usage almost certainly won't (it's far removed from the other
> usage -- nobody's going to look at one usage and think it's the other).
	How can you be sure that "nobody's going to look at one usage and
think it's the other"?  I agree with Olivier and think I would pay the
price of incompatibility to previous versions in order to have a more
appropriate reserved word for that.

	Regards,
		Tomás