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glossary of terms that belong to the terminology of syntax. It
is oriented toward Lua.  a syntactical element that can be
evaluated a syntactical element that can be executed an
expression function argument an expression function parameter an
identifier function call a syntactical element that can be used
as both a statement and as an expression. Contains a function
expression (an expression that evaluates to a function;
generally simply the identifier of a function) and can contain
one or many arguments. table index table indexation an
expression made of a table expression (an expression that
evaluates to a table, generally the table's identifier) and an
index a syntactical element that, combined with one (unary
operator), two (binary operator), three (ternary operator) or
more operands, forms an expression an expression (in some
languages, this expression must evaluate to a boolean) func