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jcromartie on Dec 14, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: C-style vs. Python-style syntax: which one would y...

Lua actually has a very odd syntax in that statements don't have to be separated by any particular whitespace.

    x = 1
    y = 2

and

    x = 1; y = 2

and

    x = 1 y = 2

are all equivalent.

I actually don't mind this. I've never encountered a situation where this style makes the meaning of the code undecidable.

silentbicycle on Dec 14, 2008 [–]

The main Lua book points out that such code is "ugly, but valid", and leaves it at that. It seems to me that "x, y = 1, 2" would be cleaner, if someone were determined to make it a one-liner.

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