Re: Improve syntax for <close> and <const>

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 08:51:46AM -0400, David Sicilia wrote:
> I believe the <...> syntax is generally perceived as being noisy and not in
> line with Lua's otherwise pretty face... can we change it to this:
> 
> local my_var close = ...
> local my_var const = ...

That adds two new keywords that breaks backwards compatibility for two
otherwise commonly-used symbol names.  I actually like the clean
extendable nature of the <...> syntax and hope one day for us to be able
to add our own decorators through metatables :)

B.