Re: Question on get/setmetatable()

[Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@...>]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 11:32 PM Philippe Verdy <verdyp@gmail.com> wrote:

prefix that is currently forbidden for identifiers and not used by existing operators in expressions where identifiers would be used: e.g. "#"

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So instead of "const", why not "#const"

 "#" already has a meaning as a unary prefix operator.