Re: python like syntax for lua

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@...>]

Eeeew. Whitespace as a syntactically significant construct. Just how wide
are your tabs?

I know. The Python community likes it this way. Is there an expectation that
doing this would lure people away from Python toward Lua?

That being said, I think the license agreement allows you to create pylua if
you want to. I have my own list of syntactic enhancements to Lua I'm
thinking of exploring though I'm trying to keep them essentially compatible
with Lua proper.

Mark

on 6/13/03 11:19 AM, Serge Semashko at serge@lxnt.info wrote:

> It is interesting what would you think about making some changes to
> lua lexer to support indentation for statements grouping like in
> Python?
> 
> I think that it will make source code more readable (no need for 'end'
> keyword - less text to type and easier to read the code) and Python
> fans will like it. This approach also has some drawbacks, but Python
> is a very popular language and people do not complain much.
> 
> Of course, this can't be called 'lua', we can find some other name for
> it, maybe something like 'pylua'.
>