"or" shortcut does not work - but why?

[Andreas Rozek <Rozek@...>]

Hello!

Yesterday, I have ported Lua 5.1.2 to Windows CE Handheld PC
2000 using embedded Visual Tools 3.0.  My port uses the same
approach as Lua-5.1-CE by "goodtaste",  but implements a few
more system functions (I even plan to implement "system" and
perhaps _popen/_pclose as I need that functionality)

The result works  like a charm  (which is astonishing)  with
one strange exception:

  local Result = false;  -- you could also use "nil" here
    Result = Result or "anything else";
  io.stdout:write("Result = '"..tostring(Result).."'");

yields "false" (or "nil", resp.) rather than "anything else"
If I change the second line to

  Result = false or "anything else";

then I get the expected output. I already tried to track the
VM's behaviour in order to isolate the problem - but then de-
cided to better ask the list first ;-)

Do you have any idea what might go wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Kind regards,

Andreas Rozek         Phone:  ++49 (7031) 436 5784
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