Re: ... can't be upvalue?

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

David Kastrup wrote:

> Incidentally, {...}[i] is not allowed.

It is if you turn the table constructor into a prefixexp by
wrapping it in parentheses:

Lua 5.1.2  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> -- Doesn't work:
> =(function(...) return {...}[3] end)(nil, nil, "three")
stdin:1: 'end' expected near '['
> -- Works:
> =(function(...) return ({...})[3] end)(nil, nil, "three")
three

See <http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8>.

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Aaron
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