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- Subject: Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?
- From: Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 15:58:48 +0100
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 15:53, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ cat resource.lua
> local resource x = 5
> print(resource, x)
>
> $ lua5.3 resource.lua
> nil 5
>
Okay, I am a bit puzzled. The grammar says:
local namelist [‘=’ explist]
namelist ::= Name {‘,’ Name}
So what you showed appears invalid grammatically ... but the parser allows it?
But I agree that if above statement is currently accepted then there
is a compatibility issue.
Regards
- References:
- Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Pavel
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Oliver Kroth
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Ulrich Schmidt
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Sergey Zakharchenko
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Rodrigo Azevedo
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Egor Skriptunoff
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Ryan Ford
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, szbnwer@<a href="/cgi-bin/echo.cgi?gmail.com">...</a>
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Matthew Wild
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Matthew Wild
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Matthew Wild
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Dibyendu Majumdar
- Re: Syntactical ugliness - does it matter?, Matthew Wild