Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available

[David Demelier <demelier.david@...>]

Le 08/07/2014 01:57, Leo Razoumov a écrit :
> On 6/20/14, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > > I'm sorry to see some of the math functions go.
> > A preview of my mathx library for 5.3 is availabe at
> > 	http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lmathx
> Luiz,
> lmathx is not part of the standard distribution and cannot be expected
> to be present in all Lua installations.
> I am still flabbergasted by the Lua's developers decision to remove
> some of the C89 math functions
> like cosh, sinh, tanh, etc. Is it in order to shrink the size of a
> statically linked Lua executable?
>
> --Leo--

Yes, I don't understand neither. Sometimes I'm thinking about switching 
to a different scripting language but actually I didn't find something 
that could replace Lua.

Regards,
David.