Re: Lua 5.3 work1 Considering math.isinteger or type()

[Duncan Cross <duncan.cross@...>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> (In an ideal world, probably we should have a library with those
> functions we do not use every day (maybe with rawget, rawset,
> getmetatable, setmetatable, collectgarbage, and some others), but I do
> not think the change is worth the trouble. Just imagine the endless
> discussions about what functions should go there...)
>
> -- Roberto

I hope you reconsider this. I have been thinking for some time that
such an "internals"/"raw" standard library, distinct from "debug"
which should not be used in production code, would be a valuable step
to take.

-Duncan