Re: [Suggestion] Not requiring commas for table entry separation

["Peter Hill" <corwin@...>]

Joshua Jensen:
> Likewise, if:
>     f = 5
>
> and you punched in the data:
>     { f "xyzzy" }
>
> _I_ would have expected (as would the non-programmer) the final result
> to be:
>     { 5 "xyzzy" }
>
> And that makes it even more obvious why the commas are required (as
> unfortunate as that may be for the simple data description case).

And
    {complex{1,2}}
to be
    {complex, {1,2}}

Alas, Lua is just too smart for its own good :-(.


The real problem lies in functions being first class objects, so that:
    x = f
and
    x = f (5)
are both valid. Ie, one can't tell if an argument will follow the function
or not.

Of course this power is lost on the naive user, who'd like
    {5 6}
to be interpreted as
    {5,6}
rather than
    {5(6)}

It's not an easy problem :-(.

Cheers,
Peter Hill.