One Disadvantage to Lua

[Skofo]

[bartbes]

Yeah.. well if you were coding C and you just happened to have */ in your code... that's always the problem with multiline comments, isn't it? Maybe you can just try adding a space?

[Skofo]

Neat idea, thanks!

I still think that Lua could use something better for multi-line comments, though. Lua seems very table-oriented so it's natural for many double-brackets to be around.

[mike]

I... did not know that Lua had multi-line comments.

I'm retarded.

[osgeld]

you can use [[ and ]] for multi line strings too (well, i haven't tried in love yet so..)

[Inny]

it's typically better to use the following multi-line comment style in lua, note the use of abitrary but matching equals signs.

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  function lol( rofl )
--[===[
    crash()
]===]
  end

That way you have to match the number of equals signs and have less chance of leaving code accidentally enabled.

[counterfactual_jones]

Is it me or does

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--[==[
--]==]

resemble

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B====D~~~

[Skofo]

it's typically better to use the following multi-line comment style in lua, note the use of abitrary but matching equals signs.

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  function lol( rofl )
--[===[
    crash()
]===]
  end

That way you have to match the number of equals signs and have less chance of leaving code accidentally enabled.

Oooh, very cool tip. Thank you!

[Tad2020]

it's typically better to use the following multi-line comment style in lua, note the use of abitrary but matching equals signs.

I have never seen/heard/read about that anywhere in the 3 years I've been using Lua. This is excellent, I like to nest commented blocks sometimes for testing and this will be most useful. Thanks!