Re: Lua 5.1.1 has been frozen

["Joseph Stewart" <joseph.stewart@...>]

On 6/10/06, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> 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??

A million thanks for sheparding Lua into the fantastic tool it is today.

If you're soliciting for 5.2 suggestions, would you consider
ada/erlang style arbitrary base constants? I've brought this up before
with no one else being interested. I'd contribute patches if there is
interest.

To recap, erlang (and I've heard Ada) support a style of integer
constants which precedes the constant with a number base (1-36) so
that things like:

2#1001 gets converted into 9 and
16#ff gets converted to 255
1#111 gets converted to 3 (okay, base one isn't that useful)

This would make some of my code much easier to read.

Just a suggestion.

-joe

> --lhf