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- Subject: Re: Idea: 'function' keyword optional when preceded by 'local'
- From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:14:14 -0400
On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 03:09:37 PM David Hollander wrote:
> Since the local scope does not have table semantics where it is
> indexable by an evaluation:
> local [getname()] = 3
>
> why not disrequire the use of the 'function' keyword when 'local'
> is present?
>
> local function success(items, total)
> reply(client, view.list(items, total))
> end
One reason not to do that is because "function" is self-documenting
code, and typing it isn't a big hassle.
SteveT
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