Re: Function invocation syntax

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:51:01AM -0700, Curt Carpenter wrote:
> How come this works:
> 	print "Hello World"
> But this doesn't:
> 	print 5
> What's wrong with saying that all function invocations must use the
> parenthetical arg list syntax?

Basically as a slight nod toward simplicity, functions can take either a
single table or a single string rather than an argument list, so:

blahfoo { 12, 45, a = "Hello" };

is valid, as is

print "Hello World"

Otherwise, you have to use the parentheses to enclose the argument list,
I.E.:

print(5)

D.

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