Re: Lua 5.2 - emulation of old setfenv

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Dirk Laurie wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:56:58AM +0200, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it> writes:
> > First step: what's the best way to detect one is running in 5.2?
> >
> > I can do:
> >
> >    local lua_52 = string.match(_VERSION, " 5[.]2$")
> >
> > but my impression is that such version-string matching is often thought
> > of as being not-so-good (e.g., the above will fail in 5.3 or 6.0, even
> > though they're likely to be more like 5.2 than 5.1).  

Just for the archives: the quotation is wrong here.

The quotation above is from a message from Miles Bader who replied to me 
by private mail (maybe to a misconfiguration of his mailer program, 
because it appears that Dirk got his message too, but I didn't receive 
that message as part of this thread)

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Lorenzo