Re: Lua 5.3: functional version of // operator?

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:06 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> One thing I've run into with Lua 5.3-work1 is that I want to make code
>> which is portable between different versions of Lua, and while this is
>> usually pretty easy by simply using runtime tests, one can't use
>> anything which is invalid syntax in earlier Lua versions, like the
>> "//" operator.
>
>
> I share Miles' concern here. This is the first serious break with Lua 5.1
> after more than eight years - like a Python 3 moment. I understand that
> people sometimes need 64-bit integer arithmetic (which is why his proposed
> idiv won't in general work) but it's a very specific point to choose to
> break with the past.
>
> steve d.
>

Since Lua reached the point of syntax (backward) incompatibility would
it be better to call it Lua-6.0 rather than Lua-5.3?

--Leo--