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

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 22/03/2012 9.42, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Indeed. I'm pretty sure that I use very long strings as index all over
> the place. But does this patch indeed prevent long strings to be unique
> indices? For me the interning of strings is one of the charms of Lua.

As this change could have a (potentially significantly) different impact 
on different programs, maybe it could be useful to be able to 
enable/disable it at program launch (or Lua state creation) time.

I'm especially thinking about Lua used as system-wide generic language, 
as opposed to ad-hoc tools that can be configured and recompiled as needed.
Not all applications are at risk from key collision abuse; it seems a 
pity to limit the power of an interesting and useful feature of the 
language.

--
  Enrico