Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available

["Tony Papadimitriou" <tonyp@...>]

I second that! This <const> format is just plain ugly to me!  Then again, 
beauty is in the eyes of the ... Lua team! :)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ryan Ford
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 11:29 AM
To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available

On Wed, 29 May 2019 21:38:13 -0300
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) is now available for testing
> This is an alpha version. Some details may change in the final version.

I want to say first I like the feature list, mostly. I'm a little confused 
about the need/usecase for warn() over print or protected calls etc. 
Secondly - I'm a big fan of how smooth and beautiful Lua's syntax is and I 
think the `local <const> lang = 'Lua'` syntax is not very aesthetic or 
smooth. I like the idea we'll be getting constants, but I hope the syntax 
can be looked at a bit more. If <const> is only an attribute on local 
variables, would it be better to just add a new const keyword. JS has let 
and const that would be similar to local and const in Lua. I'm sure adding 
keywords can be a slippery slope though.

Just my input in some minimal testing. Appreciate all the effort that went 
in and congrats on moving to an RC