Re: First line of Lua chunk

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 22 August 2013 14:33, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Would you for instance say that when you type in something
>> in an interactive session, and hit return, and Lua executes it,
>> those statements formed a chunk?
>>
>> And in that case, should not a literal reading of the sentence
>> I quoted imply that the first line you type in is allowed to start
>> with a hash?
>
> Just for curiosity: has this inexact description ever caused a "real"
> problem to anyone reading the manual? ("real" meaning someone lost some
> time trying to put something to work because he really misunderstood the
> text.)

It seems unlikely, but I guess the reference manual is so well-written
and precise (especially for such a short document) that apparently
we've come to this point of nit-picking. :)

Well, and Dirk is a bit of a Language Lawyer too. :)
http://dictionary.die.net/language%20lawyer

-- Hisham