David Manura wrote:
The above could be avoided if we could write this (why can't we?): function tuple(...) return function(f) return f(...) end end It's my opinion that the implementation of varargs in 5.1 is overly restrictive: http://lua-users.org/wiki/VarargTheSecondClassCitizen
See <http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00249.html>, where Roberto says:
Not likely. This would imply the creation of another kind of upvalues; actually up-non-values, as '...' is not a (regular) value ;)
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