This would be a pretty big change to the language, since as of today newlines have no special meaning in Lua.
The (minor) problem is that most people (programmers that are not Lua experts) trying to understand the code would interpret
a = b + c(print or write)(3)
and
a = b + c
(print or write)(3)
to be different things. The BCPL approach does not fix everything either:
f((a or b)(c)) -- this works
f((a or b)
(c)) -- the implicit semicolon would break things.
Compared to the use of 'typename' in C++ to give the parser a hint about "qualified dependent types" it's a minor issue :-)
Gé
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