RE: gettable hook

[Jim Mathies <Jim@...>]

No semicolons! IMHO. Please.  They
are a waste of source space.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Y. Webb [mailto:rw20@cornell.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:48 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: gettable hook


>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

Semicolons do seem to make life easier.  Having them as an option is a
little confusing as well.  Would it be worth doing a dynamically
configurable compiler?  Something like $; would turn on required
semicolons.  Or DoString/DoFile could take a semicolon-required flag.
The
other option would be to have DoString and DoFile add semicolons, but
there
would be that 1% case that wouldn't work.

What's the hardest and most common case to automatically add semicolons
to.

Russ