Re: Why does lua interpreter need = in front of variables?

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly@...>]

According to PiL it is simply to allow Lua to act as a calculator more easily.

'=' only is changed to "return" in interactive mode (I think) and only
if it is the first character.

i.e.

>  = 5 + 5

will give you a syntax error, because '=' comes after a space.


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