Re: Request for 5.4: adding [] as table creation syntax for Lua 6.0

[Reed Weichler <rweichler@...>]

IMO it would make the syntax way more simple! The brackets are used for table accesors, why not use the same ones for creation?

The not being able to call functions is a good point though - but I think the benefits outweigh the costs. Wrapping those function calls with () isn't too bad....

Or, we could keep the { } syntax for that very reason. It kind of looks like a middle ground between [] and () anyway. :P

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/07/16 04:55 PM, Reed Weichler wrote:

I think there was a huge missed opportunity here. [] actually looks like a table!

Except for syntactic simplicity, and not being able to call functions with it.

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