Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 14/06/2011 13.49, steve donovan wrote:
> Simply this: in Lua 5.1, os.execute() returns the system return code,
> which is zero for success. So code that assumes this will have to be
> carefully audited.

uh... thanks for pointing that out. Does ~= 0 necessarily mean failure, 
outside of system commands? Perhaps it's just foggy memory, but I seem 
to remember writing some tools that returned information that way.

What about returning true,'exit',0 in case of success? This way, the 
third value will give the actual value returned by the os, whatever that 
will be, and it could make backwards compatibility simpler:
 _, _, os_retval = os.execute(cmd)

(apologies if this all makes little sense, I'm a bit disconnected from 
Lua development in this period; I hope not for long)

--
  Enrico