Re: Lua syntax ambiguity

Hi Sean,

On 2026-08-18 20:36, Sean Conner wrote:
>    What are you doing that requires this level of detail?
Just printing tables.
>    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.
Objective is not "avoid issue and make job done". Objective is
"deal with it. Preferably nicely".

I have string quoting function at Sophistication stage.
She can quote string in many ways. We like her.

https://github.com/martin-eden/lua_table_serializer/blob/06e5bedb6a248a950158b7fb4062a8d6f61957d6/src/workshop/concepts/lua/quote_string.lua

Another function is embedding her output in index brackets [].
Code there is at Inquiry stage. It knows about possible syntax clash
and has means to avoid it (without adding unnecessary spaces).
Implementation for that is not conceptually nice, so I created this
topic to get hints, clarify things for myself or at least warn
fellow masters about this case.
>    -spc
-- Martin

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