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fabi
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Re: Coding Conventions

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Celtic_Minstrel wrote:Underscores are perfectly valid in Lua table key identifiers.
Indeed. Whitespace is also valid. It just needs to be escaped.
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Re: Coding Conventions

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No, whitespace is not valid in Lua table key identifiers. Underscores are.

The syntax {['a b c'] = 'xyz'} is not an escape syntax. It's a non-identifier table key.
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Re: Coding Conventions

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Yeah, I guess we get a bit off topic here.
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