Re: string[], doesn't exist?

["Aaron Brown" <arundelo@...>]

Sam Roberts wrote:

> Would things break terribly if any of {}, "", and Number
> could be passed as an argument expression without
> parentheses?

> From the manual:

> Arguments have the following syntax:
>
>   args ::= `(´ [explist1] `)´
>   args ::= tableconstructor
>   args ::= String

> A call of the form f{fields} is syntactic sugar for
> f({fields}); that is, the argument list is a single new
> table. A call of the form f'string' (or f"string" or
> f[[string]]) is syntactic sugar for f('string'); that
> is, the argument list is a single literal string.

So tables can be passed like this too.  If you want to
pass a literal number without argument parens, you can
pass it as a string and then convert it inside the
function.

(Offhand, I can't think of any ambiguities that would be
created by letting this be done with numbers too.)

--
Aaron