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- Subject: Re: 5.1
- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@...>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:06:25 -0400
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:32:48AM -0400, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> > It doesn't help much to note deprecated features in a
> > reference manual, since few people read those front to
> > back.
>
> One would at least expect anybody coming from Lua 4 to read
> the "Incompatibilities with version 4.0" section.
>
> I wonder how many people learned about this syntax
> accidentally rather than from Lua 4 (or in the
> aforementioned section)?
I learned it from reading code, which I think is the most usual and
effective way of learning a language (but certainly isn't "accidental",
though I'm not sure what that means). I never used 4.0.
I guess this case is impossible to detect at compile-time, though. That
seems to be a common problem with Lua; I suppose any warning facility
would need to be runtime. Yuck.
--
Glenn Maynard