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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> It was present in Lua from 3.1 till 4.0, but it was removed in 5.0.
>
> http://www.lua.org/manual/3.1/manual.html#format
> http://www.lua.org/manual/3.2/manual.html#format
> http://www.lua.org/manual/4.0/manual.html#format
>
> See "Incompatibilities with version 4.0"/"Changes in the Libraries" in
>        http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html

Interesting!  The Incompatibilities/Changes note only says that this
is "obsolete".  It's not clear to me what functionality is meant to
replace it or render it obsolete.  Is there anything out there
describing *why* the feature was removed?