Re: When is a string not a string?

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2019-01-24 12:32 p.m., Жаботинский Евгений wrote:
> "Soni "They/Them" L." <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> > Custom literals:
> >
> > local foo = u128"10000000000000000000000000000000000000"
> > local bar = re"[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*"
> Hm, yes. That is useful.
> Also, in these examples the function call actually looks like a literal prefix.
> If such convention is followed, it really is obvious what the code does.
>
> Fun fact:
>
> > "%02X":format(42)
> > -- Error
> > function s(v) return v end
> > s"%02X":format(42)
> > -- "2A"
> So… I guess it does not make much sense to force use of parentheses for method calls only around "primitive" string literals.
>
> -- Evgeniy Zhabotinskiy

also give this a try:

function x(x) print("xing") return x end
x(x)
("foo"):gsub(".*", print)
x
"bar":gsub(".*", print)