Re: New long comments in 5.1

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

Sounds like you evolved your way into a box with regard to having any
remaining simple syntaxes.

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberto Ierusalimschy" <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: New long comments in 5.1


> > It seems you are counting on that fact that "a[b[*]]" is less likely
> > to appear in a comment or string than "a[b[x]]".
>
> Not at all.  The probem is that "a[b[x]] = 3" is already a valid Lua
> command! With the new syntax, how would the parser distinguish between
> that and "a [b[ ... ]b]" ??
>
>
> > Anyway, if it must be a single character, I vote for '-' over '*'.
>
> Again we have an ambiguity. The sequence  "a[--[" already has a clear
> meaning in Lua.
>
> -- Roberto
>
>