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[BrotSagtMist]

name=function() end; is the _pure_ form of creating a function and assigning a name to it.
function name() end; is annoying syntax sugar for the same line that was added for people with no taste.

And the other thing is syntax hell based on two grounds:
Lua does sometimes not care about newlines, and sometimes it does, have fun finding it out.
The () brackets are optional when calling a function.
The code your quoted there is a function call to StateMachine with a table as argument.

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print('bla') -- tutorial form
print"bla" --valid
print"bl 
a"  --invalid
print
"bla" --valid, but heck, why?
print[[bl
a]] --valid
print{} --valid but useless

Now dont get me started on comments, [[ can be used for strings, comments and logical comment blocks.