RE: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 now available

["Brett Kapilik" <brett@...>]

Congratulations!  Good to see.  I just want to say thanks to the whole Lua development team for all of your hard work and patience.  Our company will be releasing a major product later this summer that uses Lua 5.0 for its scripting engine.  Again, way to go and thanks.

- Brett Kapilik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo [mailto:lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 9:14 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 5.0 now available
> 
> 
> The final version of Lua 5.0 is now available for downloading at
> 	http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.0.tar.gz
> 
> The tarball contains complete documentation in HTML, 
> including an updated
> reference manual. Printable versions of the manual are available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/ftp/refman-5.0.pdf
> 	http://www.lua.org/ftp/refman-5.0.ps.gz
> The pdf version contains hyperlinks.
> 
> Here is a brief summary of the changes (see HISTORY for a 
> complete list):
> 
>   + Lua coroutines (colaborative multithreading).
>   + lexical scoping.
>   + tags replaced by metatables and tag methods replaced by 
> metamethods.
>   + new boolean type.
>   + proper tail calls.
>   + weak tables.
>   + still faster: new register-based virtual machine + new 
> algorithm for tables.
>   + new error handling protocol.
>   + better error messages.
>   and much more...
> 
> Please report any problems to lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
> 
> Enjoy.
> --lhf
>