4 ms·

Is there any reason why they're not considering a single '?' like rust? Is it a parsing issue? So you'd have: obj?:method(…)

• orthoxerox 3mo ago
  Mike Pall wrote in the issue that it's easier to parse. If they get rid of the ternary operator, I'll ask him again to drop the period.
  • nmz 3mo ago
    a lone ? can mean anything, you can already tell that . is for fetching a subtable.
    • orthoxerox 3mo ago
      In C# it's not a lone ?, it's two operators: ?. and ?[ Lua could have ?. ?[ ?" ?{ and ?(
      • nmz 3mo 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.