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- Subject: Re: t[] = 'syntactic sugar'
- From: Alex Bradbury <asb@...>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:01:51 +0000
On 19 January 2012 11:58, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Egil Hjelmeland
> <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no> wrote:
>> t[#] means t[#t]
>> t[# -1 ] means t[#t -1]
>> t[# + 1 ] = 'syntactic sugar'
>
> That feels better, and is more general than t[]. Although I suppose
> it becomes a special case in the grammar, an implicit # operator, and
> I know most Lua followers are reluctant to complicate the syntax
> further.
Possibly just the sort of thing people can add themselves (if they
like it) with a tool like LuaMacro...
Alex
