Re: [ANN] LuaJIT Roadmap 2011

[David Given <dg@...>]

On 25/01/11 05:23, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
>> Interestingly enough, the absence of a @line directive in Lua is
>> crippling Objective Lua's ability to be useful.
> 
> Although it would not become mainline, a patched Lua specifically
> designed as a flexible back-end is possible and useful: @line and
> goto.

Alas, such a thing would not be interesting to me, simply *because* it's
a patched Lua. Code designed for it wouldn't run on anyone else's
machine. Or on LuaJIT (either version).

Early versions of Clue did actually come with such a patched
interpreter, which I eventually took out because it wasn't useful...

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