Re: [ANN] Ravi-Distro 0.5 alpha release

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Vr. 16 Nov. 2018 om 07:26 het Egor Skriptunoff
<egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> geskryf:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:20 PM Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>>
>> Hi, to be honest the for num loop variable should be treated as
>> 'readonly' inside the loop body as it is a copy of the real index
>> variable, and changing it inside the body doesn't affect the loop, and
>> is just bad practice in my view.
>
>
> IMO, it's not a "bad practice".
> Mutability of loop variable (without affecting the loop) is quite useful.
> Examples:
>
> for name, value in str:gmatch"(%w+)=(%d+)" do
>   value = tonumber(value)
>   ....
> end
>
> for k = 1, 10 do
>   k = tostring(k)
>   ....
> end

+1.