Re: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

[David Jones <drj@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Is there a published 'roadmap' of what is up-and-coming in lua - for 5.2
> > and beyond?
> >     
>
> No roadmap, published or otherwise. Do you have any special requests??
>   

As has been pointed out on the list before, Lua, like other languages, 
is evolving towards Common Lisp.  So the roadmap is simply which 
features from Common Lisp we lack:

extensible reader
extensible macros
generic functions
declarations
restartable conditions

My tongue is in my cheek of course, but only partly. ;)

drj