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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (alpha) now available
- From: Jim <sysinit@...>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 15:18:39 +0200
23.06.2019, 14:54, "Viacheslav Usov" <via.usov@gmail.com>:
> I chose () because this is the "least special" kind of brackets.
>
> I would not mind square brackets, simply because this would
> entail fewer keystrokes for me, but users of other keyboard
> layouts might disagree.
admittedly square brackets do not look more pleasant. :-/
> Any other characters might be used there equally well,
> but it is probably reasonable to use something that traditionally
> implies grouping, and it is not clear to me why multi-char
> sequences would be advantageous here.
using multichar sequences that look like comments to older Lua
versions and hence would be ignored by those is no bad idea,
right ?
but then this might boil down to something more in line with
Lua's multiline comments:
--[==...==[@ attr arg1 arg2 arg3 ... @]==...==]
which admittedly does not look too pleasant aswell ... :-/