Re: Lua syntax gotcha

[Doug Rogers <doug.rogers@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
> If unexpected line continuations are the problem, then obviously what 
> Lua needs is a line continuation character. It goes in column 7 as I 
> recall. ;-)

Yes, as David Kastrup said, it was definitely column 6. Except in Emacs, 
where it's 5.

So who's up to the challenge of writing a Lua interpreter in FORTRAN? 
Then I could put my Lua programs on a stack of punch cards, just after 
the FORTRAN compiler deck and the Lua FORTRAN program deck. Then I could 
wait a few hours until the printout told me I forgot to use the 'do 
return end' construct!

Ah, the good old days, when the computer science students could use 
terminals but the engineering students used punch cards. I can tell the 
stories to my kids, so there was some gain to go with the fondly 
remembered pain.

Doug


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