Re: Are automatic coercions ever going away?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> The comptibility issue will have to be dealt with anyway, if not now, then later. And the issue is fairly simple, as any fix for 5.3 will work backwards on 5.2 and 5.1. In this respect the integer divison operator is a far bigger incompatibility as it will return compile time errors on older versions.
> 
> So don't be shy, just drop them.

Just a few days ago we sent a message stating that we are not sure about
this whole thing anymore [1]. You probably missed it.


[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-07/msg00536.html

-- Roberto