Re: Praise of Lua from a game developer

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

On 7/27/2012 10:09 AM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Anyone know if it's possible to back port upvaluejoin() into
>> LuaJIT?
>
> I was about to ask the same question. I've checked the source, and it
> relies on functions absent from v5.1. I'm not familiar enough with
> the VM to tell you it it is possible or not.

Not sure if Mike Pall is still following lua-l, now that there's a LuaJIT list [1], so someone might want to ask the question on that list. After the LuaJIT list started he said that "LuaJIT questions are now off-topic on lua-l," so I suspect not.

Tim

[1] http://luajit.org/list.html