Re: Lightweight syntax: a dissident view

[Mark Hamburg <mark@...>]

On Nov 25, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 19:01, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
>>        `do `[ args `] `=> exprlist `end
>> 
>> But then Lua needs to implement the appropriate semantic changes because this would have different effects from:
>> 
>>        `do `[ args `] `return exprlist `end
> But what happens in the second case if you call the inner function
> after the outer one has returned?

The answer in most languages is that this results in an error being thrown. The answer in Scheme is that it returns again.

Mark