Re: Lua syntax ambiguity

It was thus said that the Great 'Martin Eden' via lua-l once stated:
> 
> But implementing it properly (emit only required separators) looks
> hard for me. Node serializers have no information about surroundings,
> and their caller don't know what serializer will emit.
> 
> F.e. "t={['a']=1}": we emitted "[", we know we are just opened index.
> But to what "a" will be serialized is not our business. Maybe it will
> be ""a"", maybe "'a'", maybe "[[a]]", maybe '\097', maybe
> "(function()return 'a'end)()"...

  What are you doing that requires this level of detail?

  That aside, it sounds like you have some form of AST that you want to turn
into textual Lua (possibly with a minimum of extra space for some reason). 
Per your example:

	t={['a']=1}

  At some point you have a string.  By what criteria are you using to write
a string as [[...]]?  Why not "..."?  Or '...'?  Avoid the issue entirely.

  -spc

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