Re: future of annotations in Lua?

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

> There is a big difference between all those syntaxes
[snip]
> They are all prefixed to the whole item to which they
> apply. Following their syntax, we should write '@toclose local x = 1',
> instead of 'local @toclose x = 1'.
>

In Java the annotation precedes the type in a declaration; it being
classed as a type modifier in the grammar (this is one of the uses).
Lua of course doesn't have type declarations therefore annotations
cannot be placed in the same way.

Regards