Re: syntax likes and dislikes (RE: Evaluating LUA)

["Dan Partelly" <dan_partelly@...>]

Of course, its an extremly personal thing. I just happen to think if -
then - end has a great redundancy. if {} is much more conchise.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Asko Kauppi" <Asko.Kauppi@fi.flextronics.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Cc: <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: syntax likes and dislikes (RE: Evaluating LUA)


>
> I'm a C programmer since 10+ years, and never got to think of this syntax
> difference until you mentioned it. To me, clearly separate syntaxes is
> better than some that are "close by". In school, learning Swedish and
German
> at the same time was a challenge since there's so much similarities.
>
> For me, the only "C-like" syntactical thing that I miss (in Lua) is the +=
> etc. notations.
>
> - asko
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Jensen [SMTP:jjensen@workspacewhiz.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 12:21 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: RE: Evaluating LUA
> >
> > > > I actually like the fact that Lua is not C-like.  There are already
> > > > too many C-like languages and it becomes rather confusing
> > > to have to
> > > > deal with all the variations-on-a-theme.  Lua's choice of syntax
> > > > avoids that problem.
> > >
> >
> > Except it's the biggest hangup when trying to convert C and Javascript
> > users... "Why do tables use braces and functions do not?" ... and
> > they're the main people I always try and get to use Lua.
> >
> > -Josh
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