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- Subject: Re: Did you know this?
- From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@...>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:03:29 -0500
To be honest, I'm a little confused about exactly how Lua's grammar
works. A big part of this is because I recently heard (on this mailing
list?) that Section 9 of the Manual ("The Complete Syntax of Lua") is
not strictly accurate but more of a general idea.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-09-01 19:14 GMT+02:00 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>:
>>> A label does not need any other punctuation. In particular,
>>> ::continue::end is legal without an intervening spaces.
>>
>> Why are you surprised?
>
> I've been automicallly either putting a label on its own line or at worst
> coding a space ever since the goto statement was introduced.
> Yesterday I mistyped, so there was no space. When I noticed the
> omission later, it made me wonder why there was no error.
>
