On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Herbert Voss wrote:

Am 04.09.2012 20:44, schrieb Marco Patzer:
On 2012-09-04 Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com> wrote:

Why does adding semicolon not work?

Do you have a example?


\starttext
\startluacode
   if true then;
     context("true")
   else;
     context("false")
   end
\stopluacode
\stoptext

that is no Lua syntax

I thought that semicolons were optional in lua are equal to end of lines.

Aditya

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http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.4.4
"""
The unit of execution of Lua is called a chunk. A chunk is simply a sequence of statements, which are executed sequentially. Each statement can be optionally followed by a semicolon:
:
:
2.4.4 - Control Structures

The control structures if, while, and repeat have the usual meaning and familiar syntax:

stat ::= while exp do block end
stat ::= repeat block until exp
stat ::= if exp then block {elseif exp then block} [else block] end
"""
(as conseguence
if exp then; block else; block end
is not valid
)

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luigi