RE : Proposal: Lua Table Notation + load change

[Julien Duminil <julien.duminil@...>]

> In regards to proposal 2, why do you need to make any language changes? We use lua for data storage/transmission and we do something similar to:

> local data = "{1, 2, 3}"
> local f = load(string.format("return %s", data))
> return f()

> Doesn't that achieve the same as you're trying to do?

Definitely yes, it would be just a syntactic sugar for chunk:

    chunk ::= block | tableconstructor

(and to continue a recent thread, maybe it could help some people to understand the difference between a chunk and a block ^^)