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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available
- From: Paige DePol <lual@...>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:27:19 -0500
On Jun 19, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Lua 5.3.0 (work3) is now available for testing at
> http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-work3.tar.gz
>
> MD5 4d50bbe8a2dffa5764caa099d2fa5d6b -
> SHA1 ea5061a02f7b9f526562cda21ffa6fcf8c2f1ea9 -
>
> This is a work version. An updated reference manual is included but
> all details may change in the final version. See
> http://www.lua.org/work/doc/
>
> The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is the introduction of integers.
> For other changes, see
> http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> Here are the main changes since work2:
> - exponentiation is only for floats
> - more functions in math handling integers
> - new API for continuation functions
> - io.read'*n' reads both floats and integers
> - new function debug.Csize
> - new API function lua_rotate, lua_isyieldable
> - more flexible __eq
> - stand-alone interpreter creates 'arg' before running any code
> - coercion from strings to integers (on integer operations)
> - deprecation of some math functions
>
> The complete diffs from work2 are at
> http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.3.0-work2-work3.txt
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf
Thank you for this update Luiz, I look forward to updating my patches to Work 3! :)
Good timing, too, I am almost done with my token storage patch, but now I can update it for W3 before releasing it.
Is there an update to the test suite for this new release, by chance?
~pmd