Re: Lua 5.4 local attribute syntax whitespace sensitivity

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:43 AM Sergey Zakharchenko <doublef.mobile@gmail.com> wrote:

Soni,

Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> actually, it's the lexer that requires it. while it could probably be
> done, it'd require a completely different parser design.

Or, as it seems, a small but very dirty trick:)

The small but dirty trick is how C++ decided to do it. It's... just kinda awkward.

/s/ Adam