Re: Lua 5.1.1 now available

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > You can always do
> >
> >   print(_VERSION)
> >
> > To find out the incremental version number if you really need to know.
>
> Sorry, this has changed :-). _VERSION in 5.1.1 will print "Lua 5.1".
> Use LUA_VERSION from lua.h to get the complete string.
> --lhf

I'm looking at the source and seeing:

in lapi.c

const char lua_ident[] =
  "$Lua: " LUA_VERSION " " LUA_COPYRIGHT " $\n"
  "$Authors: " LUA_AUTHORS " $\n"
  "$URL: www.lua.org $\n";

in lua.h

#define LUA_VERSION	"Lua 5.1.1"

in lbaselib.c

static void base_open (lua_State *L) {
  ...
  lua_pushlstring(L, LUA_VERSION, 7);
  lua_setglobal(L, "_VERSION");  /* set global _VERSION */
  ...
}

So I'm pretty sure that, oh...you've limited the string to 7 chars. ;-)

My face is red.

Ralph