Re: I'd give my right arm for a continue statement

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, David Kastrup wrote:

> do 'not?':format() end
>
> Surprisingly, it works only with parens around the string in Lua 5.1,
> but shouldn't it work in 5.2?

No. Statements in Lua can only start with a keyword, a variable name, or
an open round bracket. The left hand side of a prefix expression (function
calls, table indexes) can not be a number or string or table constructor,
amongst other things.

Tony.
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