Re: Apologies for bad formatting: lecture slides etc.

[Luke <lemmett81@...>]

Thanks again. Is anything else needed available in order to understand
the reference manual? e.g. I found out that ::= means is defined as (I
assume backwards) but much of the following is beyond me

prefixexp ::= var | functioncall | ‘(’ exp ‘)’
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 00:36, Gabriel Bertilson
<arboreous.philologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brackets mean that something is optional. In this case, you can call
> the function with one or two arguments: `assert(v)` or `assert(v,
> message)`.
>
> — Gabriel
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 6:33 PM Luke <lemmett81@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > And what brackets mean in the reference manual's list of basic functions e.g.
> >
> > assert (v [, message])
> >
> > Luke
> > On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 00:26, Luke <lemmett81@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks. I wonder why no definition of 'operator'
> > > Cheers
> > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 00:16, Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:02 PM Luke <lemmett81@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I wonder if there's a webresource etc.
> > > > > that includes a glossary necessary to understand manuals etc.
> > > >
> > > > <https://rawgit.com/dlaurie/lua-notes/master/glossary.html>.
> > > >
> >
>