Re: Ternary operator patch

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:01, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:42 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> > Do you really think you can keep children from growing up?

>> Can you be less cryptic please, and explain what you think the
>> long-term issues are? I think this is a useful addition too.

> I have an issue, but I am not sure it is a "long-term" one. I think
> the proposed syntax, without "end", will be quite confusing to some
> people, given that the almost identical if command must have "end".

I second this.

> On the other hand, a syntax with "end" is cumbersome.

Do we *really* need a ternary operator in Lua?

Alexander.