Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc2) now available

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@...>]

Quoth lhf:
> Lua 5.3.0 (rc2) is now available for testing at
>         http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-rc2.tar.gz
>
> MD5     61726271cf342794909a1752ea0c0aae  -
> SHA1    457be7b889f7825c3b9c8b9a4b95b85c0c0b434d  -
>
> This is a release candidate for the final release of Lua 5.3.0.
>
> A few things have changed since beta that we'd like to test in the wild.
> In particular, we made some changes in luaconf.h and in the Makefile
> that we'd like to test. Please try compiling the current code in as many
> platforms as possible. We expect the compilation will go smoothly as usual
> but please report any warnings or other glitches.
>
> We'd also like feedback on the documentation:
>         http://www.lua.org/work/doc/readme.html
>         http://www.lua.org/work/doc/contents.html
>         http://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html
>
> Finally, for those of you into this, please test luac -l -l on your
> scripts, just to make sure we haven't missed anything with the new
> VM instructions etc.
>
> The main change in Lua 5.3.0 is the introduction of integers. See also
>         http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> The complete diffs are available at
>         http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.3.0-rc1-rc2.txt
>
> An updated test suite is available at
>         http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.3.0-rc2-tests.tar.gz
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.

The documentation doesn't seem to explain the __name metatable field
in the same place as the other valid metatable fields.