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

["Brownsword, Andrew" <ABrownswor@...>]

From: Enrico Colombini [mailto:erix@erix.it]
>On the practical side, making cosmetic syntactical changes at this stage
>can only hinder Lua diffusion. Making some part of the syntax optional
>would be even worse and should be avoided at all costs: programmers would
>have trouble reading other people's code.

This is the single most salient point in this discussion so far.  Lua's
syntax seems to have been working just fine.  If it ain't broke, don't fix
it.