Re: Shorthand for appending to a table (was Re: 5.2 feature list?)

[David Given <dg@...>]

Sam Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:24:02PM +0100, David Given wrote:
>> (It is for this reason that I particularly dislike the way that the last
>> parameter in table initialisers and function calls is handled specially. I can
>> see why it has to do that, from an implementation point of view, but that
>> doesn't mean I like it.)
> 
> I didn't know that, how is the last one special?

Compare the following:

function returnsmultiple()
	return 1, 2, 3, 4
end

print(returnsmultiple(), 99)
print(99, returnsmultiple())

For all parameters *except the last one*, all items in the tuple except
the first one are discarded.

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