The main Lua book points out that such code is "ugly, but valid", and leaves it ...

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

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.