Re: Thoughts on optional commas

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

On 3/3/2012 9:12 AM, Greg wrote:
> I too am a big fan of consistency. We would be more consistent (IMHO) 
> if we dropped the option of no parentheses from function calls.

Feel free to create a patch and use it yourself, but don't expect a lot 
of people to support losing such a core feature. Even if you never say:

foo "bar"

or

foo{ bar=1 }

...there are a lot of people who rely on that behavior. The latter is an 
awesome way to get sparse named parameters for functions, and I'm sure 
I'm not the only one who thinks so. ;) I even use the string syntax for 
translations: I define a function "_t()" and then prefix every string 
with it:

print( _t "this is a string that will be translated" )

Then later _t can look up the English and replace it with the 
appropriate translation for the locale.

Also, breaking such a core behavior means that you're walling yourself 
off from other Lua libraries. Which maybe you don't care about, and 
that's fine. But many of us do. :)

Tim