Re: Syntax and redundancy

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Rici Lake wrote:
>
> > if (a < 0) { ... } else if (a > 0) { ... } else { ... }
> > if a < 0 then ... elseif a > 0 then ... else ... end
> >
> > Advantage: Lua, 3 fewer keystrokes
> >
> > And in both cases, the Lua was much easier to type; far fewer uses of 
> > the shift key.
>
>
> Or the Alt Gr key, which is even more inconvenient, for those of us with 
> non Qwerty keyboards.
> To have accented char handy, at places familiar to former typewriter 
> users, most of the C special chars (ie. ~#{[|\^]} plus ` and @) are 
> accessible only with this special key (equivalent to Ctrl+Alt).

English Rules!!!

Seriously, most of the characters you mention are also special chars in 
Lua, including '#' in 5.1!

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