Re: Table dot number?

["Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <malkia@...>]

On 10/20/11 5:37 PM, Wolfgang Pupp wrote:
> If we are already discussing syntax-
>
> I always wondered why
> "%i":format(1)
> is invalid and needs to be written as
> ("%i"):format(1)
>
> Would the short form introduce ambiguities? Or is it more one of those
> "it just turned out that way"- things?

Just guessing here, but if one allows

"%i":format(i) -- the following should also be allowed:

"%i".format(wellWhatever) -- properly written:
"%i".format("%i", i) -- but it does not matter

as "%i".something is probably ambiguous to the parser,
or maybe left out as someone might accidently forget to put one more
dot when concatenating:

"%i"..format(somethingElse)

There's probably an answer somewhere here in the mailing list, but
not one that can be easily found