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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:48:31 -0300
> Am 25.06.2014 21:29 schröbte Coda Highland:
> >On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Option names in io.read do not have a starting '*' anymore (+1)
> >
> >Asterisk optional (backwards-compatible), or not supported
> >(compatibility break)?
>
> `liolib.c` says:
>
> if (*p == '*') p++; /* skip optional '*' (for compatibility) */
And the docs says:
Option names in io.read do not have a starting * anymore.
For compatibility, Lua will continue to ignore this character.
-- Roberto
