Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:16 pm
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Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:35 pm
Uhm.. what? Generic for.ishkabible wrote:*no control over for loops, sometimes i want a different condition than <= or a more complex increment than addition
Says who?ishkabible wrote:*arrays start at 1, WTF!! they should start at 0!!
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:38 pm
Regarding that little script I posted earlier in this thread, it now has a github repo.
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:11 pm
Not everyone uses an editor that has text replacing you know. Not everyone WANTS to switch editors from something they like to something that isn't good enough just for that feature. Give me my gosh darn ++ and += and != consarnit!
No, not really a big deal. I've become used to typing it all out.
No, not really a big deal. I've become used to typing it all out.
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:34 pm
Jasoco, use bartbes' script...
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:30 pm
it turns out that lua already has an ambiguous syntax case that's related to that if example:Robin wrote:No, it's that it would allow ambiguous syntax. In which case it's not at all obvious what the compiler should do. These situations cause debugging to be very hard, because the code doesn't look wrong, and there is probably not even an error at that exact location.BlackBulletIV wrote:The main problem now I guess, is that they have to maintain backwards compatibility with grammar.
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local x = y
(z or print)("hello")
also, if x++ were added, then people would expect x-- to be added too. but... there's a problem with the latter one.
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:33 pm
How is that ambiguous, once the line ends the statement ends, right?
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:40 pm
No. Take this, for example:bartbes wrote:How is that ambiguous, once the line ends the statement ends, right?
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foobar = table.concat
{
"foo",
"bar"
} -- works!Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:44 pm
line breaks aren't considered significant in lua's syntaxbartbes wrote:How is that ambiguous, once the line ends the statement ends, right?
Re: The "I Love Lua, but..." post
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:47 pm
Right.