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- Subject: Re: gettable hook
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:36:33 -0300 (EST)
>From [email protected] Tue May 30 21:24:44 2000
>From: Steve Dekorte <[email protected]>
>
>Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We cannot have the syntax
>> "foo".test
>> because of ambiguity. The code below
>> a=b
>> "foo".test
>> is parsed as a=b"foo".test, which is equivalent to
>> a=b("foo").test
>
>How about using a semicolon?:
>
> a=b;
> "foo".test
It could work, but doesn't because the parser has to handle the case without
the semicolon too.
Having optional semicolons was probably a mistake in the design of Lua. :-(
--lhf
