Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 12:53, szbnwer@gmail.com <szbnwer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Ford:
> >  I'm sure this would break the current syntax though as you would be initializing the local "resource" and assigning a new value to the global "x"
>
> if `resource` is a keyword, then it wont mess with anything, and no
> new stuff will be usable in older versions, no matter what.

As the maintainer of a >50k-line Lua codebase that extensively uses
local variables named "resource", I beg to differ with the "it won't
mess with anything" assertion.

It's easy to argue over the "ugliness" of the current alpha-rc1
syntax, but let's not forget that it has merits too.

Regards,
Matthew