Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 15:53, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ cat resource.lua
> local resource x = 5
> print(resource, x)
>
> $ lua5.3 resource.lua
> nil        5
>

Okay, I am a bit puzzled. The grammar says:

local namelist [‘=’ explist]

namelist ::= Name {‘,’ Name}

So what you showed appears invalid grammatically ... but the parser allows it?

But I agree that if above statement is currently accepted then there
is a compatibility issue.

Regards