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		_dcwr on July 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anyprint: use any language's print statements in P... Lua does too, for literal tables and strings being sole argument you can omit parentheses. But to call method on a literal you need to add them. > print("OK") > print "OK" > ("OK %d"):format(1) I've seen some funky (ab)use of these, people using literal strings and tables and functions named class and similar to do: > class "Something" { > -- ... > }

jmaa on July 19, 2017 [–]

This is one of the reasons I love Lua. I'm constantly pleasantly surprised by Lua. It defines a few simple primitives, and allows you to do whatever you want with them, even to the absurd.

Hell, it even allows you to do this:

> somefunc "1string" "2string" "3string" > somefunc {} {} {}

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