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- Subject: Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:30:01 -0200
> Lua 5.1 is going to be around a lot longer than that, considering
> LuaJIT. LuaJIT has explicitly chosen not to follow Lua 5.2's path, so
> it's not just a question of it lagging behind but a matter of it
> forking from 5.1.
LuaJIT has not been Lua 5.1 a long time ago. As you said, it is a fork,
and it is following its own path. Anyone that uses LuaJIT for some time
is unable to return to Lua 5.1. The compatibility is one-way only.
I just saw the numbers of downloads of different versions of Lua in
Debian, and Lua 5.2 is following a pattern quite similar to 5.1, as we
expected. (Lua 5.1 took around four years to bypass Lua 5.0, in a time
when Lua usage was much more restricted than now. Even today, there is
still a lot of downloads of Lua 5.0 by other programs that need that
version.)
-- Roberto
- References:
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Dirk Laurie
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Jerome Vuarand
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, steve donovan
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Sir Pogsalot
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Tim Hill
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Andrew Starks
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Dirk Laurie
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Andrew Starks
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Sir Pogsalot
- Re: Suggestion for 5.3: import() for creating a "slew" of locals, Coda Highland
