local a,a = 1,2 print(a)
and it's the second declaration that survives (Lua 5.3). Weirder,
in the following:
a,a = 1,2 print(a)
it's the first declaration that survives.
The order in a multiple assignment in Lua is UB,
so your program's behavior must not depend on the order.
3) v = t[a][b][c][d][e]
v ends up nil. Which index is nil?
The whole point of the proposal is to not bother user with such details.
An _expression_ should "just work".
I contend that typos happen, bugs exist
Yes, the _expression_ t[a][b][c][d][e] will not detect a mistake.
But returned nil would probably raise an error on the next line of your code
(if the logic of your program expects non-nil value).
The point is that we need "silent" version of t[a][b][c][d][e] much more frequently
than "error-raising" version.
We can easily convert "silent" version to "error-raising" by applying assign() to the result.
But the reverse conversion is significantly harder.
