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by pansa2 399 days ago
IIRC Lua deliberately doesn’t resemble C - so if you’re going back-and-forth, editing both the host application code and a script, you can immediately tell which one you’re looking at.

Makes sense to me - which means scripting languages for curly-brace languages should probably use either Lua-style begin-end or Python-style significant indentation.
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ordu 399 days ago
It is one of my issues with lua. I'm starting to forget semicolons in C/C++/Rust and write : instead of ::.

I think, that I'd better deal with a language recognition, I could configure emacs to use different highlighting for different languages. Or I could change background color for buffers based on a language.

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90s_dev 399 days ago
I don't think that's the reason behind Lua's syntax. I think it was designed specifically to be extraordinarily unambiguous, clean, and simple, which it is.
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