Re: 5.2 and 5.1

[David Burgess <dburgess@...>]

Thanks for the replies, but I think I will wait for luajit to change.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
>> For 5.1 libraries written in Lua, the only difficulty will be dealing
>> with setfenv. Ideally this should be handled by rewritten them using the
>> new _ENV mechanism or using the new env arg in load.
>
> .... and even that maybe not so difficult... :]
>
> When I added 5.2 support to my code, I realized I was _always_ using
> load+setefenv in pairs (even when sometimes they were separated by
> quite a bit of other code), although I never intentionally did so, and
> that it wasn't hard to make sure the environment was available at
> load-time and pass it in to load (5.1 load will just ignore it of
> course).  Sometimes a little refactoring was required, but this tended
> to make the code clearer anyway....
>
> -miles
>
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David Burgess