Re: lualint (Re: Static typing in Lua)

[Vyacheslav Egorov <mraleph@...>]

Asko Kauppi wrote:
>    local string function dummy( table t, int i, optional int j, 
> optional number n )
>     ...
>     local int x= i + (j or 0) + (n or 0)
>     return string t[x]
>    end
This syntax is ambiguous. It already have meaning

local string         -- new local variable
function dummy (...) -- new global function
...
end

I think Pascal-style is more suitable for Lua than C-style:

local function dummy(t:table, i:int, j:int?, n:int?):string
...
end

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