Re: Lua 4.0 (alpha) now available

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> [...]
> tmp = [[this script could save
> $ if you could load it]]
> 
> Of course, this is because of the preprocessor.  The docs do correctly
> describe this behavior, still is this a good thing?

Maybe this is not very good. But to ignore a pragma inside strings means
that when Lua is skiping a false $if it should keep recognizing tokens,
to avoid eventual $end's inside strings. We will see whether we can "fix"
this without great overhead.

-- Roberto