Footnotes
- ...syntax
- As usual, a means 0 or more a's,
a means an optional a and a means
one or more a's.
- ...functions
- Actually, a function definition is an
assignment to a global variable; see Section 3.
- ...skipped
- This facility allows the use of Lua as a script interpreter
in Unix systems.
- ...fails.
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Notice that this behaviour is different from regular pattern matching,
where a * expands to the maximum length such that
the rest of the pattern does not fail.