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- Subject: Re: expression parser change
- From: Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:41:19 +0000
On 16 December 2010 15:51, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Here's a diff of the BNF as found in lparser.c:
>>
>> [...]
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
>> The changed syntax accepts strange stuff like
>>
>> nil.foo
>>
>> but also nifty constructs like
>>
>> "%d":format(42)
>> { a, b, c }[i]
>
> This creates more cases of ambiguous syntax:
>
> a = b + c
> "%d":foo(42)
>
Even the example given by the OP could be ambiguous. Now I finally
have a reason for putting semi-colons in all my Lua code :)
Regards,
Matthew
