Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha-rc2) now available

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@...>]

On 11/21/2010 03:12 AM, HyperHacker wrote:
> I'm wondering why they can't just be named "and", "or" etc. Can the
> compiler not be made to recognize that the "or" in "bit32.or" is an
> identifier rather than a keyword (which wouldn't be syntactically
> valid)?

I would much prefer that as well, but I do not see how it makes a lot
of difference in this case, as surely when you need bitops, the first
thing you do is

   local band = bit32.AND

Best wishes,
Taco