Re: Using a single quote (') character as a suffix operator in MetaLua

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:32, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jaco van der Merwe <jvdmerwe@emss.co.za>
> wrote:
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>> Thank you Fabien, that solves my problem.
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>> Just for my own understanding, why did the ".'" operator work? Wouldn't it
>> also be seen as a string terminator?
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> Because it starts with a dot, so the string lexer realizes it's not a string
> and skips it. Once it has a chance to be seen by the keyword lexer, it will
> be lexed completely and correctly.
>
> Your problem with the quote "'" was that the string lexer recognized it, so
> it never had a chance to be seen by lower priority lexers, including the
> symbol keywords parser.

Could you use M` instead?

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