Re: assignment syntax in tables

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> table = {
> 	x, y = 1, 2;
> }

Simultaneous assignment doesn't apply to tables. Remember that table
elements can be comma-separated, so what you are actually doing is setting

table[1] = x -- probably nil, hence the result below
table[2] = 2
table["y"] = 1 -- (because you explicitly gave an index here)

> Running this through lua and printing the table gives me
>
> 2 = 2
> y = 1

And you would have a value for 1 if x were non-nil above.

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