Re: Nested table syntax

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

a = {
  b = {
    c = 22
  }
}

--> semicolons shouldn't appear in table constructors, although you can 
write a comma as a semicolon for backwards compatibility.


On 18-Aug-04, at 5:46 PM, Marc Nijdam wrote:

> I'm not finding this in the book or the FAQ, so here goes:
>
> a = {
>    b = {};
>     b.c = 22;
> };
>
> will fail with a "expected to close '{' at line 1"  on Lua 5.0
>
> According to the syntax definition in the reference manual this is 
> supposed to work. Am I missing something?