Re: BNF Syntax in Lua Reference Guide 5.2 broken

["Ashwin Hirschi" <lua-l@...>]

> I tend to think that a valid Lua program would be:
> snip 8-<
> ;
> > -8 snap
>
> But it isn't:
> > lua -e "io.stdout:setvbuf 'no'" "test.lua"
> lua: test.lua:1: unexpected symbol near ';'
> > Exit code: 1
>
> Is the BNF code missleading (or wrong), or am I ?

It works just fine for me.

But... are you actually using Lua 5.2?

What does running "lua -v" say?

Ashwin.