Re: syntax

["Javier Guerra" <javier@...>]

On 2/20/08, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>  but since the reference states that
>
>         a.name as syntactic sugar for a["name"]
>
>  i'd expect the parser to recognize such cases; isn't this tricky with
>  repect to future extensions (read: new keywords) being used in scripts
>  as keys already?

the reference also states that "keywords are reserved and cannot be
used as names".  that's why the Lua designers are so reluctant to
introduce new keywords.

-- 
Javier