Re: [ANNOUNCE] lua_dolines-1.1.patch

[Juergen Fuhrmann <fuhrmann@...>]

>  Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:38:16 -0300
>  Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
>  >lua_dolines(lua_State *L, char *fname, FILE *f, int *lineno) 
>  >
>  >to the Lua API in order to be able to execute Lua code from an already
>  >open file until '$' is encountered.
>  
>  In Lua 5.0, chunks are loaded via a single API function, lua_load, which
>  receives a user function that handles blocks of bytes to Lua's core for
>  parsing (or undumping). This should make it easy to support applications
>  like the one you describe.

This appears  to be a good solution.  So, we will stay  with the patch
and start our development with Lua-4.0.1,  and I am quite sure that it
will be easy then to switch to Lua-5.x if it will be official. 

As long as 4.0.1 is official, I will keep  the patch on the wiki and
add "will be obsoleted by lua_load in 5.0" as Author's position.


Juergen Fuhrmann

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