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:Hi Kevin, thanks for being nice while I was a bit blunt. |
:Hi Kevin, thanks for being nice while I was a bit blunt. |
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:Regarding commentary not becoming unwelcome on RC, I was just showing my lack of experience here by my comment. However, I felt the commentary as it was was out of place in the [[Hello world]] example, where most languages just have some subtle variation on <tt>print("Goodbye World")</tt> |
:Regarding commentary not becoming unwelcome on RC, I was just showing my lack of experience here by my comment. However, I felt the commentary as it was was out of place in the [[Hello world]] example, where most languages just have some subtle variation on <tt>print("Goodbye World")</tt>. |
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:# That it "works with Lua 5.1.1" is unremarkable, as it would have worked since the first release (v1.1, 1994). |
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:# Having two separate versions, one with parens and one without, ''and'' a comment, just seems unnecessary. Since omitting the parens is a syntactic sugar which a minority of languages have, I'd prefer the "without" version, but per your comment I'll revert deleting that particular comment (but with corrections). |
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:--[[User:Shlomo|Shlomo]] 21:40, 7 May 2012 (UTC) |
:--[[User:Shlomo|Shlomo]] 21:40, 7 May 2012 (UTC) |
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:: If it would have worked with any version, just remove the “works with”. It's meant to act as a (minor) warning to people to be careful with versioning. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 06:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC) |