Re: Some small requests for the next release

[Doug Rogers <rogers@...>]

Doug Rogers wrote:

> > print(s:len())
> stdin:1: attempt to index global `s' (a string value)
> stack traceback:
>        stdin:1: in main chunk
>        [C]: ?


Well, I understand why this is the way it is - the colon notation tries 
to index the table 's', but 's' is not a table. What I'm looking for is 
a change in the parser so that it will use the global table (or string, 
or ...) if 's' is not a table.

Doug

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