RE: Lua 5.1.1-rc2 now available

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

>> More seriously, is the release number (5.1.1) accessible from Lua
programs?
> No and that's the whole point. A Lua program does not need to know
about minor releases, does it?

It could be useful to get minor release number for users of embedded
interpreters that don't have access to the C source or executables. It
could be a method in debug package. It's very easy to implement it in C
though, so it may not be necessary to put in Lua itself (as anyway
embedding Lua will already require some work and in many cases involves
adding C functions).