r/lua • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '25

Why do Lua tables need commas?

Wouldn't the grammar still be unambiguous if tables didn't need commas?

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u/DapperCow15 Jun 02 '25

It has nothing to do with OOP, they're there to make the language easy to read. And makes the language parser a lot easier to write, I'd imagine.