Re: New long comments in 5.1

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Jamie Webb wrote:
> > Regarding /* */, I have nothing against them, however they don't quite mesh
> > with
> > the line comment style. 
>
> If /* ... */ were adopted, I think // should be too, with -- maybe removed in 
> Lua 6. Otherwise, -# ... #- is always a possibility, but I can't think of a 
> good string syntax to match. Maybe use #- ... -# and #" ... "#? That's nicely 
> consistent and extends readily to ###- ... -###.

OK, I have another proposal:

Since everybody has an opinion on the syntax of Lua, like "it shouldn't 
use hard to type characters like ~ or [" or "it should look like the 
language I am familiar with", I propose the ultimate flexibility: user 
defined syntax.

At the start of a script (or inside an included file, or in a globaly 
defined file to be loaded by Lua interpreter automatically), user should 
be able to put instructions in the form:

#def legacy_form<tab>new_form

For example:

#def ~=	!=
#def --	//
#def --	##
#def --[[	/*
#def ]]	*/
#def or	||
#def and &&
#def do {
#def end	}

and so on.





























Hey, come back, that's just a joke! :-)
I certainly don't want such a nightmare...
Plus this is badly defined, as ]] is used both to end literal strings 
and block comments (we can replace symbols by names), and other issues.
Note this can be done by a kind of preprocessor, anyway.

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