In lua 5.3 intepreter: > table.unpack{1,2,3} 1 2 3 > table.unpack{ >> 1,2,3 >> } > The intepreter does not print results for the second input, which has multiple lines. However, adding the prefix '=' works fine: > =table.unpack{ >> 1,2,3 >> } 1 2 3