Reserved words as table index names. (Was [ANN] Lua BitOp 1.0.1 released)

["Mike Panetta" <panetta.mike@...>]

Hmm...  I wonder how hard it would be to change the parser so that when a table is being indexed with . or : it acts similar to other languages (such as ruby) and interprets everything after the . or : up to the first bit of white space explicitly as a name.  In ruby (and probably python) something.and is legal.

This might be a nice feature for the next release...

Mike

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:

Check http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2 (2.1 Lexical Conventions).

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mike Panetta <panetta.mike@gmail.com> wrote:

Even when used as part of a table (index) name?  Other languages allow this I think.  I know python and ruby support using and, or, etc instead of &&, || etc.  Ill have to try it and see.

Mike.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:

Because "not", "and", "or" are lua keywords and cannot be used as symbols.