Minor documentation inconsistency

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Martin Eden

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Feb 5, 2026, 7:57:13 PM (5 days ago) Feb 5

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Hello authors,

Looks like "global" declaration statement is put incomplete in
EBNF syntax section:

https://lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#9

stat ::=
    ...
    global attnamelist |
    ...

It should be

global attnamelist ['=' explist] |

is the same manner as "local attnamelist".

Also I enjoy dedicated and comfortably dense style of this manual.

-- Martin

Roberto Ierusalimschy

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Feb 7, 2026, 12:49:17 PM (4 days ago) Feb 7

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> Looks like "global" declaration statement is put incomplete in
> EBNF syntax section:
>
> https://lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#9
>