Re: strange table index "end"

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 09:27:16 Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > This is the first surprising behavior I've ever seen in Lua.
> > I would have expected it to know that mytable.end is a table
> > element whose name happens to be "end".
> 
> Doesn't work in Lua:
> 
>   rec={}
>   rec.do=1
> 
>  '<name>' expected near 'do'
> 
> 
> Doesn't work in C:
> 
>   typedef struct rec {
>     int do;
>   };
> 
> error: expected identifier or '(' before 'do'
> 
> 
> Doesn't work in Pascal:
> 
>   type rec=record
>     do: integer;
>   end;
> 
> Fatal: Syntax error, "identifier" expected but "DO" found
> 
> 
> - Jeff

:-)

I've always expected the unexpected in C, Pascal, Perl and the like.

SteveT

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