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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.1 (final) now available
- From: Tom N Harris <whoopdedo@...>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:43:26 -0400
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 01:12:27 PM Dirk Laurie wrote:
> Correctly so, Open parenthesis as a way to claim the next line as
> a continuation is a Python convention. Not Lua.
>
A Lua expression may be enclosed in a parenthesis and it is still an
expression. There's nothing pythonic about that. And the Lua interpreter has
also made use of it.
> x = (1
>> + 1)
>
If the interpreter is going to accept expressions then it should do so without
quirky corner-cases.
> 1 + math.random()
1.8401877167635
> 1 + math.random(
stdin:1: unexpected symbol near '1'
> math.random()
0.39438292663544
> math.random(
>> )
>
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tom <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>