Function-call-statements are a special case. Not every expression can be turned into a statement. http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.6 http://www.lu

Function-call-statements are a special case. Not every expression can be turned into a statement. http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.6 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.6 This gets rids of almost all the syntactic ambiguities. The only big one that is left is statements that start with parenthesis. http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.1 http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.1