Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?

[Andrew Gierth <andrew@...>]

>>>>> "Dibyendu" == Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> writes:

 Dibyendu> Do people find anything ugly about current Lua syntax?

The need to put ; before a statement starting with ( is very ugly.

The "x and y or z" workaround for the lack of a real ternary conditional
operator is ugly and dangerous. (And the popularity of this idiom shows
the need for such an operator.)

Having to use select('#',...) with all its attendant overheads just to
count the number of args to a vararg function is ugly.

 Dibyendu> What about the proposed new syntax <toclose> and <const>?

... meh. It doesn't look too bad to me and the proposed alternatives
seem worse.

-- 
Andrew.