Re: PiL 1

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 15:04, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 15:02, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I humbly ask Lua team to stop confusing people and remove PiL 1 from
>>> free access.
>>
>> Well, I think this drastic step needs more than anecdotal evidence.
>
> Maybe so.
>
>> There are relatively few gotchas between Lua 5.0 and 5.1;  the only
>> one that seemed to give me trouble was having to stop writing 'for k,v
>> in t'.  And yes, that nasty implicit local 'arg' in varargs functions.
>
> You've forgot module system and a bunch of deprecated functions.

Most notably table.getn(), string:len(), table.foreach().

Alexander.