Re: lua 5.2-work3: luaL_loadfile no longer accepts bytecode files with a shebang

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> I found this gem in Peter Cawley's excellent summary of the changes in 
> 5.2-work3:  luaL_loadfile no longer accepts bytecode files with a 
> shebang.
> 
> I've been prepending a shebang line to binaries produced by luac to 
> make them automatically executable under linux:
> 
> $ luac foo.lua bar.lua baz.lua
> $ echo '#! '`which lua` >theapp
> $ cat luac.out >>theapp
> $ chmod +x ./theapp
> 
> This works great in lua 5.1 and avoids an extra shell script wrapper I 
> used to use to invoke the interpreter.  With lua 5.2-work3, this no 
> longer works.  Could this approach to executable bytecode files be 
> supported in lua 5.2 though?

This was removed because we thought nobody would ever use that.

-- Roberto