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- Subject: Re: help with lua style and syntax
- From: "David Collier" <myshkin@...>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:45 +0100 (BST)
> *From:* "Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com>
> *To:* <myshkin@cix.co.uk>, "Lua mailing list" <lua-l@lists.lua.org>
> *Date:* Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:30:55 +0100
> > I don't quite understand why the syntax of "if" can't be extended
> > to say
> > that if it is given a list of values it tests the first one. But
> > maybe
> > something else would graunch to a halt then.
>
> It's already working like that. For example :
>
> function foo()
> return false,42
> end
>
> if foo() then
> print("this message is not displayed")
> else
> print("that message is displayed")
> end
well blow me down... I tried things like that and the compiler didn't
like them. I'll try it again.
TVM
David