Minor problem with tables (I think)

[Paul Bleisch <bleisch@...>]

lua-l

I was messing around trying to use lua as a model definition
system and came across a small problem I think.  For some reason:

Foo = {
  Name="Foo",
  {0,1,2,3,4}, -- <-- here see note below
  {1,2,3,4},
  {2,3,4},
  {3,4}
};

The problem is that lua cannot seem to handle unnamed and named
fields in a table constructor.  i.e. The above example fails with
a syntax error on line 3 (marked above) and the last token is '{'.
If I remove the Name="Foo", line everything is hoopy.  Looking
at the definition in the documentation, I can see why this is an
error, but I don't understand why it can't be handled.  

If I understand things correctly, I should do:
Foo = {
  [Name]="Foo",
  {0,1,2,3,4}, 
  {1,2,3,4},
  {2,3,4},
  {3,4}
};

But this doesn't seem to work either.  My goal is to allow
people to describe relatively complex heirarchies of objects
with the pretty simple syntax of table constructors.  I don't
want to have to do something like:
Foo = {
  Name="Foo",
  Foo0={0,1,2,3,4}, 
  Foo1={1,2,3,4},
  Foo2={2,3,4},
  Foo3={3,4}
};


Any ideas?

Paul
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