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On Mar 23, 2014 9:50 AM, "Enrico Colombini" <erix@erix.it> wrote:
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> On 23/03/2014 5.24, Dirk Laurie wrote:
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>> I note with gratification that the bit32 library is now
>> deprecated.
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> Uh oh... I'd better read carefully the manual! I just wrote a music compiler that uses bit32 heavily in the code generation module.
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> I am definitely not complaining, the native bitwise operators are very welcome. Thanks to the Lua team for the great work!
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> In a near future I will have to decide: publish my program as it is (for 5.2 only), make it work with both 5.2 and 5.3 by adding a few compatibility functions to emulate bitlib, or jump directly to 5.3 only?
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> This being a new program and part of an educational work, I would greatly prefer the latter solution (5.3 only), not least to avoid having to fully re-test it with 5.3 integers at a later time.
> That could however pose a problem with naive users in Linux distributions, that will probably not offer 5.3 for some time (my Lua program is just a tool in a larger project).
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> I'll have to think about it (I guess I am not alone with this sort of doubts).
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Deprecated means it will be available in 5.3 but not in the next release I think.
But the integer support will be very helpful for many programs using bitops so there is a dilemma still.
Justin