Re: Lua 5.1 (final,rc) now available

[D Burgess <dburgess@...>]

lua_gc now takes the LUA_COUNTB value.
for completeness, should collectgarbage() also have this same
parameter?

DB

On 1/13/06, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Is the change intentional or a bug?
>
> It was intentional, but I guess it became a bug :) During the
> development of 5.1 we planned to change the semantics of getn/setn (so
> the changes in the implementation). With the new #, that change lost its
> meaning. As you said, there is no point to change the behavior for a
> feature whose sole purpose is to provide backward compatibility.
>
> We will correct that.
>
> -- Roberto
>