Re: Request for clarification on reserved names

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-25 14:34 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>> 2014-04-25 12:20 GMT+02:00 Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com>:
>>
>> > If anything, allowing 'end' and similar
>> > keywords used with the table.member syntax doesn't sound like a big
>> > re-engineering effort.
>>
>> The point of my earlier remark, that 'end' etc is already caught by the
>> lexer at the same stage as two-character operators, before the
>> parser itself gets a chance, was precisely to emphasize that it would
>> be a major re-engineering effort.
>
> Not at all major. See
>         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-03/msg00309.html
>         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-01/msg00064.html

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