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For readability, `then` allows splitting with newlines very long conditional expressions, without having to wrap the condition in parentheses: if x + y + z >
by xonre 3mo ago
For readability, `then` allows splitting with newlines very long conditional expressions, without having to wrap the condition in parentheses:
if x + y + z > a
or verylongconditionalhere ()
or anotherverylongconditionalhere ()
then
...
after `if` and `elseif` the parser simply goes on until it finds `then`.
- drunken_thor 3mo agoAgreed, it keeps the parser fast as well because it is a lot more clear when the boolean statement ends and the code block begins. You either need parentheses, `then` or brackets around the block to make parsing clearly defined.
- nmz 3mo agoThis is something I don't see a lot of people do. I've tended to do for long,list,of,variables,here in ageneratorhere(bigparameterhere) do end and local x do -- everything after is just here to define x end I'm still a little irked it works so well, the only alternative would be for the language to have labeled blocks. but that might be too terse