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by nmz 37 days ago
a lone ? can mean anything, you can already tell that . is for fetching a subtable.
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orthoxerox 37 days ago
In C# it's not a lone ?, it's two operators: ?. and ?[

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

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nmz 36 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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