Re: 5.2 and 5.1

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

You're going to be waiting a very long time, then. 5.2 isn't on
LuaJIT's roadmap at all.

/s/ Adam

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:53 PM, David Burgess <dburgess@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the replies, but I think I will wait for luajit to change.
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
>>> For 5.1 libraries written in Lua, the only difficulty will be dealing
>>> with setfenv. Ideally this should be handled by rewritten them using the
>>> new _ENV mechanism or using the new env arg in load.
>>
>> .... and even that maybe not so difficult... :]
>>
>> When I added 5.2 support to my code, I realized I was _always_ using
>> load+setefenv in pairs (even when sometimes they were separated by
>> quite a bit of other code), although I never intentionally did so, and
>> that it wasn't hard to make sure the environment was available at
>> load-time and pass it in to load (5.1 load will just ignore it of
>> course).  Sometimes a little refactoring was required, but this tended
>> to make the code clearer anyway....
>>
>> -miles
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