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

[Paige DePol <lual@...>]

On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

>> [...] . Though I had wondered why the macros were used in the first
>> place, instead of the '%s' directly in the format string as is being
>> done now.
> 
> Until 5.0, Lua used `name' to quote stuff in its messages. (You can
> still find several comments inside the code using that convention.) When
> we changed that to 'name', we decided to use the macros, anticipating
> other future changes (that never came, as usual).
> 
> -- Roberto

Ah, so that explains those backtick quotes in the comments!

Thanks for the information, Roberto! :)

~pmd