Re: [Suggestion] Define t[[[]]] to index t with a long string

[Christian Thaeter <ct@...>]

On 2015-10-08 19:00, Soni L. wrote:

> I sometimes don't want to escape strings (so that the human reader
> can read them literally instead of trying to figure out the escapes),
> and adding spaces around the long strings just doesn't look as good.
> t[[[]]] is currently a syntax error and t[[===[]===]] is currently a
> function call.

late idea, what comes in mind for a lua-ish syntax is that functions
already accept strings (and tables) without parentheses. I think this
could be applied to indexing without syntax ambiguity:

 foo = {}
 foo.bar = "as usual, syntactic sugar for foo['bar']"
 foo."string here" = "syntactic sugar for foo['string here']"
 foo.[[Then working with long strings shouldn't be any trouble]] = ".."

	Christian