It appears they left off a quotation mark in one of the items in the table. Is this as it appears? Have the Minetest tutorials lied to innocent want-to-be modders?
Yep, that is an error. I haven't ever modded Minetest (my second favorite block-world game!) And I have only ever dabbled in Lua, but that is definitely a typo. There is no language I have ever heard of where excluding that quote could be considered correct (not even Forth83!)
There are languages where closing quotes at the end of a line are optional (IIRC early versions of FreeBasic; now it prints a warning), but if left off in the middle of a line it can't be made sense of.
It has been corrected. I should check more carefully!
Next time, if you could report it, that would help gratefully: http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_ ... -this-book
It took Google webmasters' three weeks to notify me about this link. (Sorry for the bump, didn't realize when posting.)
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