Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (rc3) now available

[Bas Groothedde <lua@...>]

On 08-05-2020 22:45, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

Out of curiosity; why did you change from an integer back to a byte encoded version number?

So that bytecode readers can detect the version in a uniform way. One
example is the file command in Unix-like systems.

Thank you, that's what I figured - however did you change to an integer to
prevent bytecode from development versions and release candidates from
being detected by those utilities?

~Bas

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