Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.1 (rc1) now available

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 03/06/2015 15:55, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Lua 5.3.1 (rc1) is now available at
> > 	http://www.lua.org/work/
>
> The main changes are these:
>
> - cleaner semantics for equality and order between floats and integers
> - smaller memory overhead for short strings
> - cache for 'lua_pushstring'
> - own implementation for 'string.format("%a")' for C89 platforms
> - table.move removed restriction that initial position should be positive
> - bug fix (getlocal x yield in hooks)
> - bug fix (suspended '__le' metamethod can give wrong result)
> - bug fix (getlocal in return hooks)

Ok, maybe it's nitpicking, but I had the impression that the "last 
number is just for bugfix" rule was rather strict.
Doesn't the change in table.move amount to a semantic change (albeit 
minimal)? Shouldn't this deserve a minor version bump, i.e. 5.4.0?


> -- Roberto


Lorenzo