Re: lua 4.1 Alpha

["Matt Holmes" <kerion@...>]

Errm, sorry, I meant when is it not going to be Alpha anymore ;) My wording
was off, my apologies.

Matt "Kerion" Holmes
Lead Developer
Lua Studio - The Lua IDE
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/visuallua/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Jensen" <joshj@microsoft.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: lua 4.1 Alpha


> Um... Lua 4.1 Alpha is already out.  See
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lua-l/message/5104.
>
> Josh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Holmes [mailto:kerion@bellatlantic.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:36 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: lua 4.1 Alpha
> >
> >
> > Is there any concrete release date on 4.1 Alpha yet? I am
> > writing an IDE, and I could really use some of the
> > functionality in 4.1 alpha (namely lua_loadbuffer). I need to
> > be able to check to make sure that the code in a Lua file
> > "compiles" so to speak, without actually running it.
> >
> > I know that at one point someone on the list suggested just
> > wrapping the block in a function, like:
> >
> > function CheckSyntax()
> > <huge block of Lua code from a file>
> > end
> >
> > then using lua_dostring() on that string, but it seems that
> > Lua still executes the buffer (which makes very little since,
> > unless Lua automatically executes the first function it finds
> > if no code is found in the global chunk?).
> >
> > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated :)
> >
> > Matt "Kerion" Holmes
> > Lead Developer
> > Lua Studio - The Lua IDE
> > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/visuallua/
> >
> >
> >