On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Marco Patzer <home...@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On 2012-09-04 Herbert Voss <herbert.v...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > voss@shania:~/ConTeXt> lua zzz.lua > > lua: zzz.lua:1: unexpected symbol near ';' > > marco@homerow:/tmp$ lua t.lua > true > > > voss@shania:~/ConTeXt> lua -v > > Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > > marco@homerow:/tmp$ lua -v > Lua 5.2.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > > Because in Lua 5.2 there is the empty statements http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3 """ 3.3.1 – Blocks A block is a list of statements, which are executed sequentially: block ::= {stat} Lua has empty statements that allow you to separate statements with semicolons, start a block with a semicolon or write two semicolons in sequence: stat ::= ‘;’ """ So stat ::= if exp then block {elseif exp then block} [else block] end means that if exp then ; else ; end is valid. Luatex still uses lua 5.1.4 -- luigi
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