Re: "nil" for an index

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

On Sun 16 Jun, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression that the syntactic sugar of t.x for
> > t["x"] , and x = for ["x"] = inside a table constructor, worked
> > whenever x was replaced by a string that was a valid lua identifier. 
> > It appears to work, for example, in both Lua 4.0 and 5.0(w0) if "x"
> > is replaced by "print".
> 
> I believe that's true.
> 
> > However, it appears not to work if "x" is replaced by "nil".
> 
> "nil" isn't a valid identifier, it's a keyword.
> 

Doh! I realized this seconds after posting my mail. Would
it seriously complicate the parser to allow keywords as
indices for the sugared notation?

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