Re: syntax

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

I fully agree.   LuaSub has '-snokw' (no keywords - in table indices)  
for exactly this.

This is especially vital for the enhanced 'assert' and 'type' libs  
that allow:

	assert.function( val )
	assert.true( val )
or
	type.function( val )

-asko


Hans Hagen kirjoitti 20.2.2008 kello 16:26:

> Hi,
>
> 	t = {}
> 	t.repeat = "x"
>
> this gives
>
> 	'<name>' expected near 'repeat'
>
> i can imagine some limitations like assigments, say
>
> 	repeat = 'x'
>
> 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?
>
> Hans
>
>
>
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