Re: tables with __index metamethods and next()

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2008/8/12, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>:
> >>> So what do you guys think about adding a __next metamethod for
> >>> example?
> >>
> >> See http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-02/msg00720.html
> >
> > Of course, that just teases the community with the question: When?
>
> I would say that, as a wild estimate, Lua 5.2 will ship around mid 2009;
> we hope to have a first work release in at most six months.

Do you plan to release a kind of compat-5.2 library earlier that would
implement what is already possible on top of Lua 5.1, like the
pairs/ipairs metamethods ?