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>>>>> "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.