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24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com, 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21934: 24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:09:54 +0200

> Cc: andreas.matthias <at> gmail.com, 21934 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:43:48 +0200
> 
> On 11/22/2015 07:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If that's the conclusion, I think I can make etags do that for Lua.
> >
> > Should that be done for tokens that include '.' and ':'?
> 
> I think so.
> 
> > Can there be
> > more than one of these in a token, and if so, what should etags do?
> > IOW, if we have foo.bar.baz or foo:bar.baz etc., what should be the
> > result?
> 
> Just two, I think. foo.bar is not a function, and bar.baz probably won't 
> be a "symbol at point".

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand: does Lua allow syntax such as above,
or doesn't it?  If it allows that, then what is the meaning of those?
Can a table has a function that is also a table?  (Apologies if I'm
talking nonsense.)

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