Re: Lua 5 migration

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>Will all the traffic about lua 5 lately, I decided to compile it and give 
>it a whirl. I'm impressed that it's as
>easy to compile as lua 4... kudos.

Lua should always be easy to compile. It does not depend on much and Lua 5.0
even depends on *less* stuff from C std library (at least the core of Lua 5.0).

>Has anyone made a 4 to 5 migration guide?

Not yet. But there's a compatibilty library in test/compat.lua .

>Coroutines look pretty neat. Any help understanding them besides the source 
>code?

See fibfor.lua and sieve.lua in test/ for examples.

--lhf