Re: Lua registry, environment, and threads.

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

> Maybe I missed something, but if the choice is between switching on a
> compatibility flag that makes the new 'in ... do ... end' construct pretty
> unusable (see Mike's example) or switching it off and make all old code
> using 'module()' unusable... I'd prefer having no compatiblity flag at all,

I second this.

Actually, I'd, personally, prefer compatibility flags to be off by
default. LUA_COMPAT_VARARG, enabled by default bites me often.

> and maybe call it 6.0 instead of 5.2.

I'm not sure this is necessary. Changes I've heard of are, IMHO, still
in range (on Lua scale) for minor version increment.

Alexander.