Re: Compatibility with Lua 5.X

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> 	Recently I've experimented adapting code of some libraries to
> work with all Lua 5.X versions and it was much less work than I expected.

For my C libraries, the work was very little. Here is a typicall example:

<  luaL_getmetatable(L,MYTYPE);
<  lua_setmetatable(L,-2);
---
>  luaL_setmetatable(L,MYTYPE);

<  lua_setglobal(L,MYNAME);
<  luaL_register(L,MYNAME,R);
---
>  luaL_setfuncs(L,R,0);

< require"random"
---
> local random=require"random"