Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

["Alen Ladavac" <alenl-ml@...>]

> > If the statement terminator was mandatory, then it would clearly be a 
> > block
> > because it's at the start of the statement. But really, I was not asking
> > about freestanding blocks, but about if <condition> then <statements> end
> > being sugared as if <condition> { statements } (same for while, for,
> > function, etc). I believe this does have quite a context right?

> It's still ambiguous. "if(a) { b = 1 }" is likewise either a
> brace-delineated if statement, or a table constructor in an
> unterminated if statement.

I'm not sure I'm following you here. The above looks like a syntax error, 
not like any valid Lua code. See what the interpreter has to say:

> if(a) { b = 1 }
error: `then' expected;
 last token read: `{' at line 1 in string "if(a) { b = 1 }"

So, it seems to me that the parser is aware of where the condition ends.

Another thing would be if you remove the round braces:

> if a { b = 1 } then print(1) else print(2) end

If "a" is a function that returns true, 1 is printed, otherwise 2 is 
printed.

So, I'm lead to conclusion that if you have round braces around if's 
condition you can pretty well have curly braces around its block without a 
problem. What do you think?

Thanks,
Alen