Dependence on Programming Experts

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Wed Jul 12 06:06:55 EDT 2006


Hi Robert,

Just to note, the quoted text you attributed to me was not something
which I said. I believe it was Troy.

On 7/12/06, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:
> >On Jul 11, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
> >
> >>The other issue is regarding maintenance and readability for OTHER
> >>programmers. If there's this arcane 'other' way of doing something, it
> >>may make it more difficult.
> >
> >But this is a case where the syntax exist with Rev NOW, but not
> >within this context.
> >
> >It is REALLY at odds with itself when...
> >
> >local x = 5 // is legal, and perfectly normal
> >x = 5 // is not, and is an unthinkable construction
> >
>
> Not really at odds. Within the local statement, the equal holds
> always since only string or number can be on the right side. In the
> latter case, it would be an operator which can have any expression on
> the right.
>
> In terms of implementation, the former is fairly trivial but the
> latter would require quite a big change in the parser logic, me
> thinks.
>
> Robert
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