Re: How to support '//' as lua's one line comment identifier?

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

My 2 cents, as an inteligent modern engineer one should be a bit flexible.
I coded a decade pure C before trying Lua, '--' felt strange for a few
hours but then it was gone.
SQL as one of the more wieder used "Languages" often used by
webdevelopers has -- as well.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Tang Daogang <daogangtang@gmail.com> wrote:
> For habits only.
>
> My programmers generally comes  from c, c++, java, js communities, they feel
> hard to be used to use lua's '~=', which looks very strange to them, and to
> us.
>
> Also, the '--' is the same strange to us. Maybe we will be used to it one
> day. But we like to modify lua now, :-)
>
> PS: We are web programmers, need to switch frequently in js, c, java, and
> lua.
>
> Thanks for your care.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM, kevin beckford <chiggsy@lazyweb.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > And I have added '!=' to lua source code, to stay the same as
>> > javascript,
>> > python, c, c++, java, php, and many others.
>>
>> For what purpose? You can convert Lua to javascript using llvm,  if
>> you so desire.
>>
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