Technically, that's not exactly semantically equivalent since "nil" isn't the same as the empty vararg. As you have already pointed out, it's also not exactly beautiful - which is what this tiny syntactic change is all about :) On 28.02.23 22:31, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
On 2023年2月28日 at 20:40, Lars Müller <appgurulars@gmx.de> wrote:which would benefit from a trailing comma (which should also be added for consistency with the trailing comma in arglists): function f( a, -- a comment for a b, -- a comment for b ) ... endwhat about: function f( a, -- a comment for a b, -- a comment for b nil) (i'll be the first to accept that it looks weird)