odd typo, what's happening

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

I ran into the following;

local v = {type = "timestamp"}                          -- added to run it
if v.type == "number" or v .type == "timestamp" then    -- actual code
end



Notice above, the second `v.type` has a typo with an extra space; `v .type`. I'd expected an error, but it runs fine.

Why?

Thijs