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nmz 81 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

a lone ? can mean anything, you can already tell that . is for fetching a subtable.

orthoxerox 81 days ago [–]

In C# it's not a lone ?, it's two operators: ?. and ?[

Lua could have ?. ?[ ?" ?{ and ?(

nmz 80 days ago | [–]

I'd rather it use ?.() the . means getkey, () means expression using .(expr) should be the same as array[], throwing ? as a character should be very obvious what it does.

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