Re: upcoming changes in Lua 5.2 [was Re: Location of a package]

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

I've already given up; one reason I made luaSub.  :)


Shmuel Zeigerman kirjoitti 23.2.2008 kello 17:41:

> I'm upset to find that adding 'continue' is not even being considered.
> (Just to let you know that there still are ones that miss it).
> -- Shmuel
>
>
> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > We are also considering the following changes:
> > - string.pack/string.unpack (along the lines of struct/lpack)
> > - Mike Pall's implementation for yield (using longjmp), allowing  
> > yields
> > in several places not allowed currently (inside pcall, metamethods,  
> > etc.)
> > - some form of bit operations. (We are not very happy with any
> > known implementation. Maybe just incorporate bitlib?)
> > - there is already a new function luaL_tolstring (along the lines of
> > the 'tostring' function). Maybe we should define a lua_rawtostring  
> > (no
> > coercions from numbers) and then use luaL_tolstring ("full" coercion
> > from other types) when we want to allow coercions. The point is where
> > to use one and where to use the other. (The current lua_tostring  
> > behavior
> > would be deprecated in the future...)