Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc5) now available

[Edgar Toernig <froese@...>]

David Manura wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 5, 2011, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > How many scripts do you think will fail with this addition of '\x'?
> 
> Related: Approx 1% of scripts use undefined escape sequences:
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00449.html

Interesting.  If I got it right, most of them are actual errors
where the programmer meant something different as he got (like
\ instead of % in patterns).  As there's neither a compile-time
nor a run-time error these mistakes got through unnoticed.

Thanks.

ET