Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

On Jun 19, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> Lua 5.3.0 (work3) is now available for testing at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-work3.tar.gz
> 
> MD5	4d50bbe8a2dffa5764caa099d2fa5d6b  -
> SHA1	ea5061a02f7b9f526562cda21ffa6fcf8c2f1ea9  -
> 
> This is a work version. An updated reference manual is included but
> all details may change in the final version. See
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/
> 
> The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is the introduction of integers.
> For other changes, see
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
> 
> Here are the main changes since work2:
> 	- exponentiation is only for floats
> 	- more functions in math handling integers
> 	- new API for continuation functions
> 	- io.read'*n' reads both floats and integers
> 	- new function debug.Csize
> 	- new API function lua_rotate, lua_isyieldable
> 	- more flexible __eq
> 	- stand-alone interpreter creates 'arg' before running any code
> 	- coercion from strings to integers (on integer operations)
> 	- deprecation of some math functions
> 
> The complete diffs from work2 are at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.3.0-work2-work3.txt
> 
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf

Thank you for this update Luiz, I look forward to updating my patches to Work 3! :)

Good timing, too, I am almost done with my token storage patch, but now I can update it for W3 before releasing it.

Is there an update to the test suite for this new release, by chance?

~pmd