Re: Ideas about colon operator syntax (and a patch in the work)

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 04/29/2014 04:54 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Your proposal is ambiguous. Consider this code:
>
> s = "I can shout!"
> u = s:upper
> ("hello"):gsub(".",print)
>
> Is the last line part of the second statement?
Again, this is not a proposal, but ideas for a patch I want to share 
with fellow Lua programmers.

Your comment about the ambiguity is already answered by Daurminator ;-)
I agree that my ideas doesn't solve the existing problem and maybe make 
it even worse.
--
Thomas