Re: os.exit() with EXIT_SUCCESS and _FAILURE

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:54:20AM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Would it be possible for some future version of Lua to expose the C
> > stdlib.h constants EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE in the os library, for
> > use with os.exit()?  The values of them are implementation-defined, and
> > so they're useful.
> 
> Personally, I'd use booleans for that:
> 	os.exit(true)	-->	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)
> 	os.exit(false)	-->	exit(EXIT_FAILURE)
> plus the current scheme:
> 	os.exit()	-->	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)
> 	os.exit(n)	-->	exit(n)

I like this.  Too late for 5.2?

B.