Re: compat file

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I am not sure where the file 'compat', for use as a prelude with Lua
> 5.0(w0) to give compatibility with Lua 4.0, came from, but am I right in
> thinking that line 36 (in definition of "do_" ) should read
> 
>      local a,b = pcall(f,nil)
>      
> and not
> 
>      local a,b = pcall(nil,f)

Yes, quite right. (Actually, the line is "local a,b = pcall(f)",
very close to your correction.) I'm afraid we put an old version of
compat.lua in the distribution :-(

-- Roberto