Re: Missing unpack?

[David Given <dg@...>]

On 14/03/15 00:54, Paul K wrote:
[...]
> Lua 5.2 changed unpack to table.unpack. If you need to have the same
> script run under Lua 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3, you may want to use
> 
> local unpack = table.unpack or unpack

Hmm.

$ lua5.2
Lua 5.2.1  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> =unpack
function: 0x420520
> =table.unpack
function: 0x420520

This suggests that there's a compatibility option that exposes unpack
into the global namespace, right? And it sounds like my reportee's Lua
wasn't built with this option. Does that seem plausible?

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