Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:

> My thought is to omit the colon and and use a space:
>   @ y
> When you read that, you can think of it or verbalize it as
>   at y

Or "here we are at y".

> Here, "@" is not a sigil modifying the identifier y, but rather
> it *is a keyword*.

Yes. It has the same function for the parser as the other keywords that
start statements.

Tony.
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