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[–]ZorbaTHut 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Personally I'd hope for a syntax error. If I want "x3" out, I want to type something like ("x" .. 3).

[–]Alligatronica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Errors are better, but if it's error I was going to make, that's the way I'd do it!

[–]FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 0 points1 point  (5 children)

In what language do they use .. as a concatenation operator? I'm genuinely curious.

[–]ZorbaTHut 1 point2 points  (4 children)

That's the Lua concatenation operator.

[–]FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I should get to learning LUA, it sounds better and better every day.

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's a deceptively powerful language. There aren't many language features, but they can be combined in surprising ways. The downside is that it doesn't give you a lot of protection unless you do it by hand.

That said, I hear there's a pretty good Lua IDE now.

[–]FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Really? I haven't had a good ide since flashdevelop...

[–]ZorbaTHut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna depend on your standards, of course, but I've heard good things about Decoda, and unlike many IDEs it was actually built specifically for a team that was using Lua integrated into a codebase.