Re: What will be the future of Lua-5.2 or even Lua-6.0

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

..and a decent built-in debugger.  :)

Please, if Santa's still listening... something in the lines of the  
'lua' executable, would 'luad' be a proper name?

Yesterday, I would have wanted one. Normally, "print"s are effective  
but following the flow of execution by such techniques is a no-go.  
For that, a "sample debugger".

-asko



David Burgess kirjoitti 25.12.2005 kello 0.55:

> Merry Christmas Asko,
>
> I agree. I dont expect much change. Incorporation of Mike Pauls
> Coco would be nice.
>
> David B.
>
> On 12/25/05, askok@dnainternet.net <askok@dnainternet.net> wrote:
> > Lainaus ñÒÈóÃñ <gvutcc@163.com>:
> >
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > Is there any plan or roadmap to the future of Lua?
> >
> >
> > While waiting for the answers, here's my view of Things in the  
> > Making:
> >
> > - Lua 5.1 brings standard way of making modules, and this is  
> > probably the most
> > important "new feature" it has, history will tell.
> >
> > Personally, I don't expect much more from the Lua >5.1 versions  
> > ("small moves,
> > Sparky, small moves.." ;) but much more of the community at large  
> > (that is: us)
> > to provide such modules, and make them truly inter-operable.
> >
> > A nice repository of modules, perhaps, but that may be best  
> > covered by actively
> > pushing stuff to apt-get/fink/etc. where people already pick their  
> > favorite
> > software. They'll simply "sudo apt-get install luasocket" and  
> > start using it?
> > This would also allow other packages to depend on luasocket (which  
> > depends on
> > lua 5.1) so... I think we shouldn't re-invent that mechanism.
> >
> > The only thing I'd really want of Lua itself, is enumerated types,  
> > so that C API
> > constants can be used as type-aware parameters, and catch any  
> > "false" usage
> > (color enum where font enums should be, and such). This is a major  
> > issue for
> > coding larger programs with SDL, Gtk+ etc. and currently, just  
> > placing those
> > enums as integers is a Lowsy Solution. I shall look into this, if  
> > it could be
> > achieved by the extended metatable handling there now is, or some  
> > other "stock
> > Lua" technique.
> >
> > Then again, it will be interesting to see what others thing "Lua  
> > 6.0" would have
> > in store for them... :)  It is New Year, after all.
> >
> > -asko