Have i,v pairs been updated? (Or does vLua require you to use "pairs")

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Earlier, I was typing code in this GUI I made (that uses vLua) and I tried to iterate over a table;

for i,v in {"example","table"} do
     print(v)
end
>example, table

But, if I put it through vLua (vLua 5.1 (improved VM) - Roblox), it threw the error ‘attempt to call table value’, so I had to instead do this;

for i,v in pairs({"example","table"}) do 
     print(v)
end

Have i,v pairs been updated, does vLua just not support doing that? I remember I always used to use for i,v in pairs(<table>) do instead of just putting for i,v in <table> do, but it doesn’t seem to work in vLua.

(I edited my post to make it more clear lol)

[StrongBigeMan9]

Although I am not familiar with vLua, I do know that Roblox Luau was updated to support “Generalized Iteration” within the past half a year, which essentially means that you can omit / not include the pairs or ipairs and, as far as I’m aware, it’ll iterate over the table with ipairs by default before using pairs.

That means that the following example would work just fine, even without including pairs or ipairs:

local exampleTable = {1, 2, 3}
local exampleTable2 = {
	["pumpkin pie"] = "yummy",
	["object"] = nil,
	[100] = "random number"
}

for i, v in exampleTable do
	print(v)
end

for i, v in exampleTable2 do
	print(i, v)
end

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I’m not super knowledgeable on the technical details behind it, so here are some relevant resources that may be more insightful:

Relevant References

Syntax

Roblox/luau/blob/master/rfcs/generalized-iteration.md

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@StrongBigeMan9

Although I am not familiar with vLua, I do know that Roblox Luau was updated to support “Generalized Iteration” within the past half a year, which essentially means that you can omit / not include the pairs or ipairs and, as far as I’m aware, it’ll iterate over the table with ipairs by default before using pairs.

That means that the following example would work just fine, even without including pairs or ipairs:

local exampleTable = {1, 2, 3}
local exampleTable2 = {
	["pumpkin pie"] = "yummy",
	["object"] = nil,
	[100] = "random number"
}

for i, v in exampleTable do
	print(v)
end

for i, v in exampleTable2 do
	print(i, v)
end

---

I’m not super knowledgeable on the technical details behind it, so here are some relevant resources that may be more insightful:

Relevant References

Syntax - Luau luau/generalized-iteration.md at master · Roblox/luau · GitHub

Thank you for clarifying, I guess vLua hasn’t updated in a while (since Feb 15, 2023)