Re: [BUG] Table constructor not equivalent to left-to-right assignment (Was: Testing for a sequence ...)

[Paul Hudson <phudson@...>]

I get to use one of my favorite Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes:

"What we demand is rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty".

In other words, as long as it is clear when the behaviour becomes undefined,  if your application does not use any undefined behaviour, then it's entirely possible to determine what your program does.

The C language specification has deliberately done this from the start, and it works well there.

Paul

On 22 April 2012 20:24, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 22, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Robert Virding wrote:

> Without a clear deterministic definition of the language it can be basically impossible to determine what your program does.

You are overreaching a bit here, aren't you?