Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.1 (work1) now available

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 21/03/2012 21.44, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> #define LUA_MAXSHORTLEN         (8 * sizeof(void*))

Shouldn't it perhaps be better to put it in luaconf.h? Or is it in 
llimits.h because it's supposed to be changed very rarely?

A second point: does "should not be larger than 255" mean there is no 
way to disable it and restore the previous behavior?
Maybe "0=all strings are interned" could be useful in case some program 
had trouble with the new system (e.g. I can think of some sort of text 
processing, such as a translation helper that uses chunks of already 
translated text as table indexes).
Assuming no underlying change or new optimization prevents this, of course.

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  Enrico