Re: Ambiguous syntax

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I'm still curious why the check was taken out in 5.2.  It did seem like a
> useful feature.

As shown here, the check was confusing anyway. There are several valid
situations where you may want a newline between the function and the
parameters.  Moreover, in 5.2, you can always add a colon before the
statement to avoid ambiguity:

;(g or h)()   -- always valid in 5.2, not in 5.1

-- Roberto