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

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> This is exactly how I would expect a copy function to work without reading
> the documentation. I was surprise to see self-copy as the default.

Maybe the name 'copy' is not good, but we added this function thinking
mostly about self-coping (moving??), for instance as a basis for other
functions like insert and remove (inspired by Laurie's block.move).  The
ability to copy to another table should be a plus, not the main goal.

-- Roberto