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

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> Eargh. Just for the record, if "then" and "do" become optional,
> adapting lua-mode.el looks nontrivial to me, because then the block
> boundaries cannot be keyword-based anymore. To get indentation right,
> it might then even be necessary to implement a full-blown
> recursive-descent parser. Talk about overkill.
> 
> Just thought that I should mention this as a potential tradeoff.

Ah. In that case, I'd probably carry on using them.

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