Re: Improve syntax for <close> and <const>

[nobody <nobody+lua-list@...>]

On 2023-06-19 14:51, David Sicilia wrote:
> can we change it to this:
>
> local my_var close = ...
> local my_var const = ...
>
> AFAICS that should not be syntactically ambiguous, and would be worth 
> doing even if it requires breaking code that uses const/close as 
> variable names.

It is ambiguous / `local a b = …` already has a meaning, specifically 
`local a ; b = …`. So this would parse as `local my_var ; close = …` and 
re-defining it to be something else now would be a pretty drastic change 
(and/or a mess of special cases in the parser).

-- nobody