Re: any plan about luajit2 support 5.2!

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 18/11/2010 6.27, steve donovan wrote:
> > > (1) "continue" statement
> > > (2) LPEG has not been merged in.
> > It's probably a bit excessive to put them on the same level :-)
>
> Yes, because LPEG has always worked well as an extension. Why the need
> to have it in the core?

To make myself clearer, "continue" looks to me like a very minor 
"goto"-like speed improvement (and one I can happily live without, as I 
did for 40 years of programming, because I prefer clean code even at the 
price of an extra variable - I know other people see things differently).
LPEG, on the other hand, is not something you can easily replace. I've 
not used it too (until now) but I can see it's a very powerful tool and 
I look forward to using it.

In that sense I meant they're not on the same level: a minor tweak 
compared to a major library.
In any case, I agree with your statement that LPEG's place shouldn't be 
inside core Lua: it's a higher layer.

--
  Enrico