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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Lua conditionals fail inside \starttexdefinition
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:22:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsApgpLEBjXSruX1qyheiO-SqsR_rSm1dxep8DpgWBJXMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1209041504570.21943@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>


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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
)

-- 
luigi

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-04 12:21 Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 12:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-04 18:24   ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 18:34     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-04 18:44       ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 18:56         ` Herbert Voss
2012-09-04 19:05           ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 19:15             ` luigi scarso
2012-09-04 19:18             ` Herbert Voss
2012-09-04 19:35               ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 19:39                 ` Herbert Voss
2012-09-04 19:47                   ` Marco Patzer
2012-09-04 19:41                 ` luigi scarso
2012-09-04 19:05           ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 19:22             ` luigi scarso [this message]
2012-09-04 19:28               ` Herbert Voss
2012-09-05  9:09         ` Hans Hagen

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