Re: Are parenthesis-free calls a Good? (was Re: patch: C-style string lexing)

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Although the conversations I'm reading on the list are stimulating
> from an experimental language design standpoint, it's making me wonder
> how mature Lua actually is, or how complicated it's actually going to
> become.

The Lua syntax has changed very little over the years. In particular,
the sugar f{} is in Lua since its first version (15 years ago), and the
sugar f"" is there since version 3.1 (10 years).

I would say Lua is quite mature now, and it is not going to become more
complicated than it is.

-- Roberto