Re: PiL 1

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 15:13, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We continuously hire programmers to code in Lua. Almost everyone does
>> not have prior experience with the language. Almost everyone stumbles
>> upon this problem.
>
> It would be useful if we had a list of deprecated stuff that appears
> to cause problems.  Otherwise it does feel like opinion.

Mostly: module system, arg, deprecated functions.

> A more sensible solution would be a Lua 5.0 - 5.1 migration FAQ

At least mark each page as "describing previous version of Lua".

Alexander.